doctrine that the political authority of the state is legitimate to some degree
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online assesses the current sad state of the nation’s two major political parties. The argument that there’s no difference between the Republican Party and the…
Editors at Issues and Insights highlight former President Ronald Reagan’s prescience. “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism in a people has been by way of medicine.”…
Jay Cost of National Review Online ponders the prospects. Has the socialist moment finally arrived in the United States? Increasingly, the Democratic party seems to think so. Capitalism has had…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explains why conservatives should not simply write off America’s largest cities as too liberal. Conservatives do not do well in the cities. We assume,…
You should know Stancho. I met Stancho this morning. He lived the first two decades of his life in communist Bulgaria, then another ten or fifteen years there as the country tried…
Jeremy Hammond reviews for Barron’s a new book that explains why left-wing darling Bernie Sanders had no business standing anywhere near presidential power. Sanders garnered a surprising number of votes…
The election of Donald Trump could prompt people on the left end of the political spectrum to develop a healthy distrust of government power and to seek nongovernmental solutions to…
George Leef’s latest Forbes column focuses on a change in focus for left-of-center partisans and politicians. In the America I grew up in, the “liberals” were content to use government…
Jonah Goldberg‘s latest column at National Review Online contends that American politics would benefit from removing as much power as possible from Washington, D.C. Donald Trump almost never uses the…
It is not much of a prediction, I think. The Washington Post reports that the White House has promised a “non-traditional” speech that, in the president’s words, will cut through the…
Statists never run out of reasons to expand government control to dictate how people will live. Obamacare was such an effort, of course. And now another great leap forward is…
It is undoubtedly true that the emergence of social media can help to make the case against big government. It is equally true, however, that the authoritarians who want people…