My syndicated column for this week:

Right instincts are resonating on the campaign trail this year. That’s why so many candidates who are not your usual political fare are coming within shouting distance of many an entrenched officeholder. Some of them will win. Some of them will lose. But they all recognize that the fight is a good one to have. Anthony Weiner should have a challenger. Barbara Boxer should have a hard-fought reelection struggle. New York congressman Maurice Hinchey, an embarrassment in office, really could and should lose his reelection bid. And a Harry Reid or a Lisa Murkowski — or whoever your incumbent with a sense of entitlement is — would be exposing his or her foolishness by being angry and bitter because he or she has a fight on hand. For there is a prudence in the American voter who truly appreciates democracy and his role in it — and it’s unmistakably present this year.

It also gets a little help from Jacques Maritain. The column is here.