January 17, 2023

Paul Johnson RIP

A couple of weeks ago, while reading a splendid new biography of the nineteenth-century English landscape painter John Constable, I pulled off the shelf my go-to guide on all things about art, Paul Johnson’s incredible work, Art:  A New Hi...

June 7, 2022

Christopher Lasch and the Great American Divide

Christopher Lasch was no conservative, at least not what we traditionally think of as “conservative.”  He was never a Republican and as one writer phrased it, “Lasch’s conservative turn was more (Wendell) Berry than (Will...

May 9, 2022

Recovering America

This free-falling into a new America is becoming increasingly unlivable.  For anyone over a certain age, this America, this culture, and this society have become beyond foreign.  It is not the country we grew up in, and it is not ...

May 19, 2021

Planting the Flag: The States will be Sovereign

Four months into the Biden administration, we are starting to get a clear picture of what is happening to our country.  The mask, if it was ever actually on, has come off.  This administration and its far-Left puppet masters have veered so ...

December 19, 2019

A warning to conservatives: Don't get complacent on impeachment

A march to ruin, a gang of Mafiosi has been unleashed on our great nation from the bowels of Capitol Hill.  This is a modern-day NKVD, a Moscow show trial of revolutionary zealots that would made Felix Dzerzhinsky proud.  This sha...

April 2, 2017

Is the fall inevitable?

The euphoria conservatives felt from the November election has evaporated.  The left is at war with President Trump, the very left that has fully taken over the Democratic Party.  We know that the establishment media are in bed with the Dem...

February 15, 2017

America: Creed vs. Culture

The debate is raging in conservative circles on whether America is a nation based on creed or culture, or as some put it, one based on blood and soil. It is a debate that has raged for decades, one that many conservatives thought was won and over. Bu...

December 25, 2016

Christmas in a Time of Religious War

The good feelings of the election and Donald Trump’s victory have given way to the horrors of Jihadist reality.  As we celebrate of the birth of our Savior, we are brutally reminded how dangerous the world has become for Christians.  ...

November 20, 2016

The Absurdity of ‘Unity’

Coming out of the election we hear the cries that America is breaking apart, that we have never been more disunited.  We aren’t breaking apart in the literal sense of course; we have stalled any calls for secession for awhile, though Calif...

October 27, 2016

Why Trump Will Win

Donald Trump is going to win on November 8th and the moment when this election turned from seeming defeat to certain victory will be the least expected and one of the most derisively attacked moments of his campaign.  During the third debate whe...

October 12, 2016

Selling out liberty for false piety

I will come right out and say it: I could give a damn what Donald Trump says in private. What this signals to me is that the false piety on display by so many Republicans and conservatives is nothing more than a symptom of the wussification of Americ...

September 9, 2016

France's Subtle Descent into Dar al-Islam

WARNING: This review contains spoilers. Declinism is in vogue.  A number of books and articles have been written in recent years about the "Decline of the West."  Perhaps most notable is Mark Steyn's bestselling book Americ...

April 25, 2016

Trump and the Contest to Control Conservatism

What lies at the heart of the Trump movement and those who are critical of it is the very basic question:  What is a conservative and what is conservatism? In reading Derek Hunter’s anger filled invective at Townhall.com, I had to wonde...

January 31, 2013

The Path to Saving the Republic: Just Say 'No'

Our nation is in crisis. The Obama administration is centralizing power at a level unmatched in American history with grave consequences for our future liberty and freedom. Of that there is not much debate among conservatives. Conservatives, however,...