Liberty
Time to squash tax hike talk
Editors at National Review Online deliver a message to Republicans about federal taxes. If this is a trial balloon, it doesn’t even deserve to achieve enough altitude to get properly…
Pat Buchanan
American politician and commentator
Liberty
Appealing to the People, Unless They’re Elite
Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online explores politicians’ use of the words “people” and “elite.” [W]ho are the people? Some people? My people? In a speech last year, Senator Josh…
Liberty
CJ’s Ray Nothstine explores 50-year-old ‘Hardhat Riot’
Carolina Journal’s Ray Nothstine writes for Law and Liberty about the David Paul Kuhn book, The Hardhat Riot. Pat Buchanan is largely credited with coining the term “silent majority,” but…
Liberty
Paul, Cheney, and the future of GOP foreign policy
Jack Hunter argues in a Washington Examiner column that a feud between Rand Paul and Liz Cheney highlights a longstanding Republican divide over foreign policy. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The GOP and trade
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explores the Republican Party’s future approach to trade. Conservatives who gave in to an uncharacteristic bout of unsecured optimism quickly were reacquainted with our…
Elections & Public Integrity
‘Rebel’ Republicans and efforts to wound Trump
David Drucker of the Washington Examiner looks into the goals of anti-Trump forces within the Republican Party. President Trump’s antagonists inside the Republican Party now have a fallback plan to…
Liberty
Putting Putin in perspective
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist website offers conservatives advice about how to react to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. The protests and police crackdown are a reminder of what the…
Elections & Public Integrity
Exploring Trump’s appeal
James Antle of the Washington Examiner isn’t buying the notion that likely Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is a man of the political left. Conservative complaints about Trump notwithstanding, he…
Elections & Public Integrity
Trump supporters already planning third-party bid
If Donald Trump does not secure the Republican presidential nomination, some supporters want him to make a third-party bid for the White House. Alex Pfeiffer of the Daily Caller reports.…
Elections & Public Integrity
National Review columnist questions Trump’s trade knowledge
Kevin Willianson‘s latest column at National Review Online puts Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s knowledge about trade to the test. A great deal of Donald Trump’s silly and illiterate trade…
Regulation
Williamson examines antipathy toward trade
Kevin Williamson‘s latest column for National Review Online probes the growing distrust among the American populace of the benefits associated with free trade. This situation is the result of a…
Liberty
Historian examines the GOP’s future
Richard Norton Smith examines for TIME readers the tensions among contrasting elements within the Republican Party. Obama … occupies a unique historical position. No mere presidential polarizer, nearly six years…