Postmodern and Conservative, Wondering and Wandering
Postmodern Conservative and National Review Online part ways. A look at what it means to be postmodern and conservative in 2016.
Postmodern Conservative
Crying Wolf, Prematurely
The boy in this tale is not to be confused with the other one, the one who lied to gain attention. From the beginning this boy sees what really is ...
Conservative Brands
A quick overview of leading factions of conservatism. Some conservatives support Trump, who isn’t conservative. And whither populism?
Mitt Romney and the Liberal Media Bubble
Matthew Sheffield is right that the very conservative tend to live in a media bubble, but he also shows that the reverse is also true. People who don’t consume explicitly ...
More Legutko
Here’s a little more from Ryszard Legutko’s just-released-in-English The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies.
…liberal democracy has become an all-permeating system. There is no, or in any ...
Diverse Thoughts on Diversity
Thoughts on “diversity” in higher education, on the redundancy of the phrase “social justice,” and on students’ enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders.
Trump Today
Harvey Mansfield is right: Trump is no gentleman in his public life. It’s part of his appeal. Republicans must come to terms with it if they are ever to win ...
Why Midwestern GOP Governors Fail
If you were looking for an ideal Republican presidential candidate, you might start with someone who was a popular, reforming, tax cutting, conservative, governor of a Midwestern, swing-state. You would ...
What a Dissident Notices, a Quarter-Century after Communism
Ryszard Legutko was the editor of Solidarity’s official journal of philosophy, and after Poland was freed from communism, he has served in the highest levels of Polish government, as well ...
Donald Trump’s Forthcoming Strange New Respect from Liberals
I’m NeverTrump, but, even as we are living though another of the media feeding frenzies related to Trump comments, we should remember that his reputation will be upwardly revised by ...