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The Superstition of Politicians

A progressive politician with a theory is like a peasant woman at her weekday Mass. Both are using tools to access grace. The difference is, the peasant woman isn’t superstitious. (Essay)

You're Not a Lunatic? Thank Your Daddy.

What do the violent extremes on the Left and the Right have in common? They tend to come from fatherless or divorced homes. That's Mary Eberstadt's observation in “The Fury of the Fatherless” in First Things. She recites the well-known statistical facts about fatherlessness in the

The Deep Spring: A Few Words in Favor of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Teddy Macker at Front Porch Republic

Do You Have a Totalitarian Impulse?

Drinking with friends and the Diocletian Test Do you have a totalitarian impulse? Ask yourself: "Do I think the government's goals or aims should take priority over human nature?" Put another way: "Do I think the government's noble end justifies a bad means?

How the Establishment Went Radical Left

“Having set out from unlimited freedom, I have ended up with unlimited despotism.” Shigalev (the intellectual of the revolutionary group in Dostoyevsky's The Devils). In The Devils, Dostoyevsky tells the stories of young revolutionaries who are children of Socialists. Their parents wanted change. They passed their views down

Libertarian and Conservative to Cuff One Another on Live Video

Photo by Roland Samuel [https://unsplash.com/@rosam2020?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral]In this threatening age of The Great Reset and leftist rage at four years of Trump, the debate between conservatives and libertarians seems

L.A. Genocide

David Cole has written one of the most interesting and amusing essays of 2020. Bonus: It's about Los Angeles. Photo by Giovanni Calia on Pexels.com [https://www.pexels.com/photo/low-angle-photography-of-brown-building-with-los-angeles-led-sign-2181230/] Los Angeles has always fascinated me. Among U.S. cities, it's second only to

The 2020 Election and Men in the Gray Flannel Suits

November 2020: When holding leftist beliefs officially became a sign of monotonous conformist thinking How did Biden pull off his victory? He didn't do as well with minority voters as every presumed he would. The Catholic vote continued to hover around 50% like it has for 20 years.

$58 for an AOC Sweatshirt Isn't Too Much

But the mere use of a price at all is I found the uproar over AOC's $58 sweatshirt fascinating. I don't object to the price tag. It's no doubt pricey, but she's fundraising for her campaign. I frequently overpay for items when