What David French Gets Wrong About the Culture War

What David French Gets Wrong About the Culture War

There is a brand of nonsensical liberalism that celebrates the triumph of processes. Such liberals celebrate speech but not what is said. They delight in choice, not what is chosen. They affirm the act of worship, not who or what is the object of adoration. Under this perspective, the most absurd contradictions can coexist as … Read more

Why Do Liberals Give Free Reign to Those Who Destroy Order?

Why Do Liberals Give Free Reign to Those Who Destroy Order?

What America is now experiencing is the twilight of liberalism. It is not a beautiful scene of magnificent hues and fading light. It is a sinister darkening of society with tones of foreboding. Liberalism was supposed to have delivered a society of maximum freedom. Individuals could do whatever they desired while respecting the feelings of … Read more

The Death of Live-and-Let-Live Liberalism

The Death of Live-and-Let-Live Liberalism

A fundamental (and faulty) premise of liberalism is that people should do what they want as long as they don’t hurt anyone else. Under these conditions, all legal acts, whether virtues or vices, are considered morally neutral—one having just as much value as another. Liberalism may have other economic and political manifestations, but the ultimate … Read more

As Liberalism Crashes, Where Should We Look for Solutions?

As Liberalism Crashes, Where Should We Look for Solutions?

Modernity presents liberalism as the beginning of history. Before liberalism, liberals claim, there was nothing but ignorance, darkness and the gnashing of teeth. Liberalism is credited with all progress and security in the modern world. Its reign suddenly appeared like the creation of the world. Thus, as liberalism crashes and crumbles, most liberals automatically exclude … Read more

Liberalism vs. Putinism: A False Dilemma

Liberalism vs. Putinism: A False Dilemma

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, most of the focus attention has been on the military and humanitarian aspects of the conflict. The war is, after all, a geopolitical earthquake, the worst fighting and refugee crisis on European soil since World War II. It is possible that the war in Ukraine will … Read more

How Liberals Turned Freedom into Tyranny

  Ryszard Legutko knows about freedom. He experienced a lack of freedom when his native Poland was under communism, and the State controlled everything. He felt the exhilaration of liberation when the captive nation was freed in 1989. And now he senses the suffocating climate of freedom’s suppression by ideologues that proclaim freedom yet deliver … Read more

Future Belongs to Those Who Oppose Drag Queen Story Hours

A new kind of debate is now raging inside conservativism. In times past, we discussed the strategic and tactical options by which we might work toward common goals inside the existing political framework. Today, the framework itself is in question. What is being discussed is the classical liberal foundation of the American political system. Indeed, … Read more

This Is Why Liberalism’s Pantheon Failed

This Is Why Liberalism’s Pantheon Failed

A great debate is raging among conservatives about the future of the movement. At stake is the classical liberal tradition that created our pluralistic society. This model holds that the public square must be morally neutral. It establishes a religious indifferentism that avoids the great life questions that assign meaning and purpose to life. This … Read more