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  • Conservatives Attempt a Last Stand Against Trump

    Conservatives Attempt a Last Stand Against Trump0

    I’ve said before that conservatives were showing symptoms of a negative identity—one that criticizes rather than offers a positive vision; one that says what it’s not rather than what it is. Yesterday’s National Review issue has seemingly confirmed that diagnosis. In a feature titled “Conservatives against Trump,” NR has amassed condemnations of Donald Trump from

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  • Conservative vs. Liberal Logic: A Comparison

    Conservative vs. Liberal Logic: A Comparison0

    If you read the news or follow politics, you hear a lot of arguments and all of them sound different. But in reality, there are only two basic ways to argue. We could call these two kinds of argument “Arguing Forward” and “Arguing Backward.” Arguing Forward is principled in nature. It involves beginning with a principle or

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  • Conservative Media Needs to Stop Taking Their Opponents’ Side

    Conservative Media Needs to Stop Taking Their Opponents’ Side0

    Members of the establishment conservative media are wimps when it comes to responding to the left’s accusations about white American “systemic racism.” Whether it’s refusing to stand for the national anthem at sports events, substituting the Black National Anthem for the Star-Spangled Banner on PBS, announcing fireworks shows on Independence Day are a “racist” activity,

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  • Conservatism Is About More Than Economics

    Conservatism Is About More Than Economics2

    Roger Scruton was perhaps the greatest conservative thinker of the modern era, and like all great thinkers, he didn’t spare his own side from critique. For example, he often pointed out that modern conservatives are happy to cheer on capitalism, but they rarely say anything about conserving traditional ways of life—or the natural environment. Are

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  • Conservatism & the Politicization of Culture

    Conservatism & the Politicization of Culture0

    There is an aspect to the conservative abandonment of culture I find distressing: the increasing politicization within the conservative movement. I have witnessed a movement which began with the insights of thinkers like Russell Kirk into the primacy of imaginative vision, or what Richard Weaver called “the metaphysical dream,” turn into a highly politicized phenomenon

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  • Congress’ Illegal ObamaCare Exemption and Its Nixonian Defenders

    Congress’ Illegal ObamaCare Exemption and Its Nixonian Defenders0

    Thousands of members of Congress and congressional staffers are benefiting from an illegal scheme that gives Congress special treatment both by exempting them from the harshest part of ObamaCare and by providing them each up to $12,000 in benefits that federal law prohibits them from receiving. Last week, the Heritage Foundation’s John Malcolm and I

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