Yesterday I received the sad news that Jon Basil Utley, publisher of The American Conservative magazine, had passed away. Jon was a friend and a truly unique gentleman, whom I much admired. Here’s a note from John Burtka the Executive Director at The American Conservative, about Jon: Dear Richard, With deep personal sadness, I am […]
Trump Knows: Free Trade, Open Borders–a Recipe for Ruin
Originally posted on March 13, 2018. Writing at The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains how the new resistance of Western man to the globalist agenda is really a hearkening back to the thoughts and actions of America’s founders, Washington and Hamilton. Trade and immigration freedom are relatively new developments in the scheme of American history, […]
Richard C. Young: Move to the Old Confederacy
Originally posted October 22, 2019. At The American Conservative, Casey Chalk defends the South from the, unfortunately, frequent, unoriginal, and incorrect attacks against the region. He writes (abridged): In polite company among the technocratic elite, it’s acceptable to ridicule the South, Southern culture, and Southern politics. The Left has skewered Southern states for.” Historian and foreign policy […]
President Eisenhower Warned of the “Military Industrial Complex”
Originally posted on November 15, 2018. At The American Conservative, Gareth Porter, explains that the military-industrial-complex, called out by President Eisenhower in his farewell address, “has become a much more serious menace to the security of the American people than even Eisenhower could have anticipated.” Porter writes (abridged): What President Dwight D. Eisenhower dubbed the […]
The Death of the West is Happening Now
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains to readers that the prediction of his 2002 book, The Death of the West, is no longer a prediction, but is now a reality. He writes (abridged): The number of births in Japan fell in 2019 to a level unseen since 1874, around 900,000. But there were 1.4 […]
Build a Life Around the Place Where You Grew Up
Originally posted on May 22, 2019. In The American Conservative, James Pinkerton analyzes the first speech to the Senate of Senator Josh Hawley, who Pinkerton calls “a new kind of Republican.” Pinkerton says Hawley is a “senator from Main Street.” America needs Main Street focused conservative leaders. I have been discussing the breakdown of America’s […]
Is Harvard Square, Cambridge Dead?
Matthew Robare writes in the New Urbanism column at The American Conservative: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Harvard Square has a problem: it’s rapidly becoming an outdoor shopping mall thanks to high property values. Rents are so high that only high-end businesses or chains can afford the rent. Local hipsters’ despair of its authenticity. Many of the bookstores which […]
A Taste for Familiar, Family and Faith in God
Originally posted on May 3, 2019. John Burtka, executive director of The American Conservative writes: Teddy Roosevelt once quipped, “Thank God I’m not a free-trader.” I agree. What was once considered a prudential question between free trade and protection depending on circumstance and national interest has now ossified into an ideology. Any attempt to direct […]
Reboot American Families, Small Towns, Rural Areas
Originally posted on May 20, 2019. In The American Conservative, Samuel Hammond makes the case that industrial policy aimed at reviving America’s small towns and rural areas is the right path for America. Hammond suggests that pivoting the economy away from the few cities drawing in much of today’s business would be beneficial for the […]
America Must Curb the Power of Socially Progressive Corporations
Originally posted on June 5, 2019. John A. Burtka IV, executive director of the American Conservative magazine, writes in The Washington Post that, conservatives must break with their long history of dogmatic free-market advocacy to 1) take on big tech, and 2) take on China. He writes (abridged): Political movements need a villain if they […]
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