May 26, 2018

Post-Liberalism in the Age of Trump

In January 1981, Gore Vidal appeared on The Merv Griffin Show where he discussed, among other things, the received "mandate" of Ronald Reagan, who had just come off a historic landslide victory over President Carter two months prior. ...

May 21, 2018

Trumpism Meets the Conservative Tradition

Russell Kirk wrote in his seminal work, The Conservative Mind, that the last of the truly great statesmen, those being the champions of traditionalist, hierarchical, and organic society rooted in a transcendent morality, order, and class-based system...

May 16, 2018

Larry Kudlow Defying Critics, Cleaning House

Larry Kudlow, who took over as director of the National Economic Council (NEC) after Gary Cohn's departure last month, is so far demonstrating extraordinary leadership in being able to reconcile the disparate factions within the Trump administrat...

May 3, 2018

Journalism and vulgarism

Such, Such Were the Joys, Orwell once wrote as he waxed nostalgic over his school days. For many in the left-wing media circles who presently vent opprobrium for the nightmare that is President Trump, the Joys refers to the era of...

April 26, 2017

The Case against Legalizing Marijuana

A general trend within recent years has been that around this time, a new poll comes out suggesting more Americans than ever to be in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational use.  This year was no exception: according to a recent CBS...

April 23, 2017

Mater Si, Magistra No: Renewal of Tradition in the Catholic Church

  It has been over a half-century since the closure of the Second Vatican Council, which ran in multiple sessions from 1963 to 1965 under the papacies of Pope Saint John XXIII and Pope Paul VI.  Vatican II, as the ecumenical council is c...