I have already touched upon my central theme: the distinctiveness of American democracy from its Greek predecessors and its French successor. I am going to limit myself to three main topics: the persistence of tradition, the treatment of religion and property, and the adherence to federalism.
In 2016, California Attorney General Kamala Harris was running for the U.S. Senate. It took some wrangling, but our Editorial Board at the Orange County Register scored an interview with her
My subject today is mildly unpleasant, but since it had fascinated me for quite some time I now decided to take the plunge.
An academic friend about go on a sabbatical in England, writes to ask how he should remedy his deficiency in Greek and Roman history and wonders if it is not the sort of question I frequently receive.
This is the first part of a talk (here revised) given to a group of Telos editors and contributors at Cooper Union in New York. With the exception of Clyde Wilson and Sam Francis, the other speakers were Frankfurt School Marxists. This unlikely mix was stirred up by my good friend the late Paul Piccone.
Some pro-lifers are in a pother about President Trump supposedly abandoning the pro-life cause. I’ve been a pro-lifer my whole life. Fought the battles in the trenches since 1972, when in Michigan we defeated a pro-abortion Measure on the ballot when I was 17.
These are the poems submitted to the poetry contest. I am soliciting the votes of all readers not related to the contestants. The only contestants eligible for the prizes are those who were in attendance, but I also welcome comments on the contributions of Travis Berg and Asa Plinch
In the wake of recent events in the Middle East, George Gilder, some of whose thoughts all those years ago I thought original enough to publish in the magazine I was editing, has just updated his book The Israel Test. I had not read the book when it was first published, in 2009, and now I thought I’d catch up with the intellectual evolution of the acclaimed author of Wealth and Poverty.
other places Trump would win. My Democrat relatives and friends back in Michigan were backing Trump. They were Reagan Democrats back in the day, favoring him over the weak Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Walter Mondale in 1984; as well as Bush over Michael Dukakis in 1988
Some nagging thoughts on the Secret Service’s explanation to Congress around the events of the so-called Trump assassination attempt
Reading an account of Oprah Winfrey hectoring the horde of Democrats and mocking cat ladies, I thought to look up the celebrities who addressed the Republican Convention.
