conservatism

Me on Fiction

April 28, 2011 Culture

I promised I’d link to the speech I gave on Conservatism in American Fiction at the Horowitz Freedom Center Retreat a few weeks back. Here it is:

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The Minds of Conservatives & Liberals

April 12, 2011 Culture

Here’s a wisely skeptical article over at PsychCentral’s Therapy Soup about yet another one of those studies showing that liberals’ brains are different than those of conservatives. According to what is known about the functions of those two brain regions, the structural differences are consistent with some reports showing a greater ability of liberals to [...]

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Winning Back The Arts

December 20, 2010 Culture

I made the argument on National Review Online last week that conservatives were actually winning back the arts from the left – and that we needed to do more to secure the victory: After years of declaiming against the Left’s domination of our culture, I’m startled and delighted to discover that the tide is beginning [...]

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When the Revolution’s Over

October 11, 2010 Culture

Last week, my friend John Nolte of Big Hollywood fame did one of his classic take-downs of an hysterical leftist reviewer, some doof who went ape over the new family film Secretariat.  To read the fearsome Noltenator at his Texas Chainsaw best, go here. But what struck me most–moved me most–about this excellent post was [...]

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The Mount Vernon Statement

February 18, 2010 politics

Yeah, this is good, very good.  I especially like this passage, a bit of much-needed taking the plank out of our own eyes: “A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a [...]

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