Conservatism
Conservatives sometimes lament that, unlike liberals, they lack for countries to which to move — or at least to threaten to move — when they lose elections. Judging purely from its president’s attitude, it looks like the Czech Republic might be headed in the right direction: When it comes to the climate, “there are competing…
Founder of First Things and one of this country’s preeminent theologians, Father Richard Jon Neuhaus has passed away. From the National Catholic Reporter. From the early 1970s forward, Neuhaus was a key architect of two alliances with profound consequences for American politics, both of which overcame histories of mutual antagonism: one between conservative Catholics and…
Remember, when you read stories over the next few months that begin like this Washington Times story does…Republican Party officials say they will try next month to pass a resolution accusing President Bush and congressional Republican leaders of embracing “socialism,” underscoring deep dissension within the party at the end of Mr. Bush’s administration.…that Anchor Rising…
It’s strange that this, from Rod Dreher’s argument for the centrality of religious social conservatives to the Republican Party, should have the air of something controversial: Times change. Today, the greatest threats to conservative interests come not from the Soviet Union or high taxes, but from too much individual freedom. Look around you: Americans have…
So, John Henke warns social-religious conservatives of electoral apocalypse should they excise libertarians: Social conservatives have to realize that they need the fiscally conservative, socially moderate/tolerant voters if they want to be a part of a winning coalition. The limited government message won revolutionary victories for Republicans in 1980 and 1994; it is the only…
This l.t.e. (no longer on line), forwarded by a friend, appeared in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. It succintly outlines the discussion this evening between WPRO’s Matt Allen and National GOP Committeeman (State Representative) Joe Trillo as well as currently among Republicans everywhere. My own slightly tangential reaction to this letter is: what hijacking? While…
Those all-powerful radio hosts are to blame for the Republicans’ misfortunes, according to Steven Stark. If that’s the case, perhaps liberals’ difficulty succeeding in the medium was a function of strategy. More seriously, I’d point out that Stark has picked two moments in history and asserted a trend, even though Republicans’ fortunes have been more…
Tony Blankley provides some historical and practical context for the rash of conservative commentators who have become enamored with Obama based on his “temperment”. He calls them “me-too Conservatives.” He also forecasts what will happen post-election: I suspect that the conservative movement we start rebuilding on the ashes of Nov. 4 (even if McCain wins)…
Markos Moulitsas (Daily Kos himself) recently wrote (h/t) that he wants to “break the conservative movement’s backs and crush their spirits.” He wants to “destroy their most beloved leaders” and silence “some of their most cherished voices.” Further, he writes, with the 2008 election, the liberal/progressive/Democratic movement “[has] been blessed with an opportunity to help…
Jonah Goldberg writes about Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper: Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. Peter Rodman is dead. And memory is dying with them. Over the weekend, Solzhenitsyn, the 89-year-old literary titan, and Rodman, the American foreign-policy intellectual, passed away… What I admired most in both men was their memory.…
