Regaining Middle America
Now taking his third shot at the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey, Jeffrey Bell has spent his career warning of the risks of kicking the cultural ...
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No More Retreat
“We bought it, we paid for it, it’s ours, and we’re going to keep it.”
— Ronald Reagan on the campaign trail, 1976
When Ronald Reagan single-handedly crashed the bipartisan party calling ...
Perfect Together: Social and Defense Conservatives
During the Cold War, cultural traditionalists and strong-defense advocates worked closely together, defending what Russell Kirk called “the permanent things” against attack, both foreign and domestic.
Their conviction that the fortress ...
Revitalizing America
“No one matter is of such vital moment to our whole people as the welfare of the wage-workers. If the farmer and the wage-worker are well off, it is absolutely ...
The Henry Ford Paradigm
Meeting with his board of directors on January 1, 1914, Henry Ford didn’t just ring in the New Year: He laid the economic foundation of the American century. Daring to ...
‘What’s Good for America . . .’
When Charles Erwin Wilson, President Eisenhower’s nominee for defense secretary, faced the Senate Armed Services Committee in 1953, the General Motors CEO reluctantly agreed to sell his GM stockholdings to ...
Marriage: What Matters
Fifteen years ago, in his first book, Dead Right, David Frum identified several challenges facing Republicans. He cited the “fundamental contradiction” of William Weld, at the time governor of Massachusetts, ...
Our Families, Our Wealth
They make up the largest and most loyal constituency within the Republican party, but social conservatives get little respect from party leaders, nominees, or elected officials. Not only have Republican ...
Tax Cut of the Century
Although conservatives are not pleased that John McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts, it should encourage them that the presumptive GOP nominee has adopted virtually their entire economic platform. ...