In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Michael Lucchese
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It is always gratifying for a student when a teacher compliments his work. That is why I am flattered by Donald Devine’s engagement with recent writings of mine in The American Spectator. Assessing two essays I wrote about a year apart, he reminds us of the importance of a moral vision to sustain republican self-government. Devine contends that the two chief…
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America has never quite satisfied political theorists. On the one hand, it can seem as though the Founders were idealistic revolutionaries, committed to an abstract notion of the “rights of man” that can obliterate tradition and introduce disorder. On the other, it can seem as though they were cold-blooded realists who made cynical compromises with…
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Nicholas Mosvick published an interesting essay in Fusion reassessing the legacy of Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy and the anticommunist movement more broadly. While McCarthy’s efforts to unveil the genuine threat of communism and the Soviet Union ought to be appreciated by any American conservative, Mosvick unfortunately goes too far in his defense of the period’s populist…
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Last week, during an interview on CNBC, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proudly declared “I am not a conservative.” His third nomination is undeniably a sign that the Republican party is moving away from the twentieth century conservative movement. In a recent essay for Fusion, evangelical Substacker Aaron Renn labels this trend the…