When I learned it, I thought the motion for this month’s Intelligence Squared U.S. debate – “The GOP Must Seize the Center or Die” – was simply dreadful. How could the opposing case possibly be made without fighting a losing… Continue Reading
I’ve seldom agreed with Hugh Hewitt so strongly—and readers know I agree with him a lot—as I do on repealing the medical device tax through regular constitutional order and not the usual rendering of pig lips and cow parts. Hewitt… Continue Reading
After watching the State of the Union address, Sen. Marco Rubio’s response on behalf of the GOP, reading some blogs and tweets and ruminating on all of it while doing the dishes, here are some of my take-aways. On the… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the GOP’s political messaging this week. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can be found here.] Slow news week last week. A relative (and rare) calm before the State… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the GOP’s political messaging this week. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can be found here.] "The good news is, conservatism is not completely dead." This was the tongue-in-cheek… Continue Reading
If you haven’t been following the conversation among William Voegeli, Geoffrey Kabaservice, Stephen Hayward, and David Frum about Voegeli’s lead article in the most recent Claremont Review of Books, you’re missing out. (See here for some prior excerpts and discussion… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the GOP’s political messaging this week. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can be found here.] Benghazi, abortion, recess appointments, reactions to the second inaugural. A relatively slow news… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the week’s politics for the benefit of hypothetical GOP leaders looking to know whether and how the week’s political messaging went over. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can… Continue Reading
[Lay impressions on the week’s politics for the benefit of hypothetical GOP leaders looking to know whether and how the week’s political messaging went over. More information about this series can be found here. Other posts in the series can… Continue Reading
…is William Voegeli’s lead article in the latest Claremont Review of Books. He paints a formidable defense of GOP’s “extreme” tendencies of late: Brought to the present by a recent history defined by two fundamentally unprincipled parties compromising on a… Continue Reading