Avoiding Temptation
Paul Gottfried reminds us that Obama was recently awash in the praise of Republicans who have now turned on him ferociously. He also writes: There were of course critics of Obama on the right, but these were not the ...
Paul Gottfried reminds us that Obama was recently awash in the praise of Republicans who have now turned on him ferociously. He also writes: There were of course critics of Obama on the right, but these were not the ...
William F. Buckley Jr. might have allowed the neoconservative tendency in through the gates at NR, but he never quite surrendered to its charms"opposing, eventually, the war in Iraq and never evincing any kind of ...
If the Paul movement can persevere and cohere"neither of which is certain"it can go beyond a cult of personality and be a beginning rather than an ending. The challenge that awaits the thousands of activists who have ...
Today it is almost axiomatic that conservatives are nationalistic, interventionist, and overly fond of answering political problems with police or military solutions. The power of John McCain’s candidacy probably boils ...
Ron Paul missed many opportunities to attract Republican votes. The Congressman did not really articulate a foreign policy, as opposed to telling Americans that the war in Iraq and almost all other wars the U.S. has engaged in ...
Reflecting on the sorry state of conservative causes in America is a temptation to self-pity, resentment, and salty thoughts of conspiracy. Likewise, the burbling descent of various rightist media down the intellectual bidet ...
I wrote here once before about the repartee that keeps the snarks flying between me and my beloved lady Texan. I noted that each of us treasures his own impossible dream. In mine, the Habsburg monarchy is restored in Central ...
There is nothing substantive linking Fascism to the "liberal" academics Goldberg goes after in his book. Indeed I would have trouble finding any link between these subjects, save for the fact that "fascism" is ...
Nothing I have read in National Review during my over 30 years as a subscriber shocked and angered me more than Ron Radosh's nasty review of M. Stanton Evans's Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy ...
In November, I heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hold forth before a full auditorium at Kenyon College. RFK Jr. appears to rank second only to Al Gore in rabid environmentalist enthusiasm. It was he who last summer iterated what all ...
Recently I encountered a revelation in the New York Post that may startle my readers as much it did me. I discovered in a featured story "U.S. Jew Haters," that a poll recently commissioned and carried out under the ...
It would have been beyond belief just six months ago. I speak, of course, of the Ron Paul Revolution"and for purposes of this piece, I shall refer to it as exactly that, for at once it has been bringing revolutionary ...
Aside from its bizarre beers, its tennis star Justine Henin, the writer Georges Simenon, and the flamboyant Rexist leader Leon Degrelle, I know very little about Belgium. No matter. I am puzzled by a passing remark by ...
Over at the Goldberg Review, they’re revving up the motors to convince “conservatives” that Rudy the Reckless is The One. We should have known this, and, indeed, Paul Gottfried was clued in early. Now ...