In June, an announcer on CBS observed, “George Will is essentially unchanged from the way he looked forty years ago.” He still wears Brooks Brothers. He still parts his hair on the left. And in politics, while lesser men have compromised with the ascendancy of Donald Trump, Will has stayed . . . . Continue Reading »
Conservative thinkers will have to become at once less political and more political. Continue Reading »
Any attempt to revive the failed conservative consensus that preceded Trump would be misguided and harmful to the right. Continue Reading »
Our globalist liberal elites are no longer fit to govern. They are decadent and out-of-touch. Continue Reading »
Trump is making us address the most important question in any democratic polity: Who are we? Continue Reading »
In the summer of 2017, something unusual happened at the Islamic Society of North America’s (ISNA) annual conference in Chicago. A table set up by Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV) in partnership with Human Rights Campaign (HRC) was removed after an attendee complained. The booth had been . . . . Continue Reading »
DEADLY DESERTS Paul Griffiths’s sneering review of our book, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed (“Against Capital Punishment,” December 2017), illustrates how much bile—and how little charity—is often to be found in those who speak the loudest of mercy and humanity. Griffiths suggests . . . . Continue Reading »
George W. Bush's speech last week clarified the deep agreement between his agenda and that of center-left Democrats. Continue Reading »
The now infamous second presidential debate was a spectacle that few decent Americans want to witness again. It was also a spectacular one-act recapitulation of the four-hundred-year-long drama of sex and sin in Protestant America. Continue Reading »
Plus: Pokémon Go and American Insecurity. First Things Podcast, Episode 2. Continue Reading »
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