In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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John G. Grove
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“We will run the country,” Pres. Trump said of Venezuela’s future after capturing its dictator Nicolas Maduro. The use of the “Royal We” softens the reality of what he means—that Trump himself and a small group of his loyalists plan to “run” the South American country in the name and with the resources of the…
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It seems appropriate that the messaging platform that Tyler Robinson, the assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, appears to have lived on is called Discord. His action, it seems, was born in part from a deep discord in public life. Unfortunately, Kirk’s killing will likely exacerbate it. The way we perceive political expression deepens this…
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Describing Americans’ attitude toward “bureaucracy and state centralization,” the great conservative Robert Nisbet observed that they “curse it, deride it, abhor it, all the while they are beckoning it to them with one hand.” There is plenty of cursing and deriding going on today. Opposition to the administrative state is having a moment. Following up…
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What is public life? In the leadup to the election, the evangelical author Nancy Pearcey tweeted out an appeal for pastors to be more political. Those who do not preach politics, she argued, offer “a privatized Christianity.” At a major conservative conference, I recently heard a panelist make the flip side of the same argument:…
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“America is not just an idea. America is a nation.” That was J.D. Vance’s big applause line at the National Conservatism (NatCon) conference last month. That theme seamlessly transferred over to his speech at the RNC after being named the Vice Presidential nominee. Josh Hawley’s NatCon speech used similar language: “Since the days of the city-state,…