Will it be single-payer? If conservatives don’t offer a viable alternative using incremental changes, single-payer is what we will (eventually) get. Yuval Levin and Ramesh Ponnuru point conservatives in the direction of the reforms we need.
And from now a word from William Voegeli (via James Pethokoukis):
There can be no conservative welfare state if conservatives insist there can be no constitutional welfare state.
Lift My Chin, Lord
Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…
Letters
Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…
Spring Twilight After Penance
Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…