by jpitney | Dec 7, 2025 | Conservative'
Robert P. George at WP: The intrusion of fundamentally anti-conservative ideas into American conservatism is connected to the rise of illiberalism on the left. For over a decade now, “wokeism” has produced authoritarian groupthink — genuine cancel culture — in...
by jpitney | Dec 3, 2025 | Civic Education, Claremont McKenna College, Conservative', Higher Education
Benjamin Storey and Jon A. Shields at Persuasion: [R]eintroducing intellectual conservatism to our universities will temper, not accelerate, our polarization. Today’s partisan spirit is a reductionist one: tell me if so-and-so is left or right, a squish or a solid, a...
by jpitney | Nov 2, 2025 | Conservative', Debate
Wisdom from Prof. Robert P. George: A few days ago, I posted a brief statement of what I, as a conservative, seek to conserve. The first item on the list was what I regard as the foundational principle of all sound morality: the profound, inherent, and equal dignity...
by jpitney | Dec 6, 2023 | Conservative', Foreign Policy, Military, Republican
Kori Schake at Foreign Affairs: The United States needs a strong and vibrant Republican Party. To make a more coherent case for how it would solve the country’s problems, the party will have to clarify its foreign policy focus. Traditional conservative...
by jpitney | Nov 25, 2023 | Conservative', Journalism, Journalists
At POLITICO, Marc Novicoff profiles Aaron Sibarium staff writer at the Washington Free Beacon “It’s rare to see someone who will cover something like, say, race-based treatment of Covid drugs … who also is like not a crank and has an IQ above 120,” Sibarium says,...
by jpitney | Aug 22, 2023 | Civil Rights, Conservative', Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Difference that drives progress is a spectacular ideal for higher education, but far too many schools are failing in practice. At Columbia University, a DEI office explicitly states that they “are committed to centering race in our pursuit of...
