The Forgotten American System

By |2025-01-28T17:34:20-06:00January 28th, 2025|Categories: American Republic, Economic History, Economics, Free Trade, History, Politics, Republicanism, Timeless Essays|

President William McKinley championed the American System: “We lead all nations in agriculture; we lead all nations in mining; we lead all nations in manufacturing. These are the trophies which we bring after twenty-nine years of a protective tariff.” A return to the American System would be a major step toward increasing prosperity and restoring [...]

The Church Against the State

By |2025-10-21T19:59:42-05:00January 25th, 2025|Categories: Catholicism, Christendom, Common Good, Conservatism, Economics, Government, New Polity, Politics, Subsidiarity|

The fundamental principle of Christian politics is that all power ought to be used for the common good. As Pope St. John XXIII put it, the realization of the common good is the “sole reason for the existence of civil authorities.” But what is the common good? The political right is in a state of [...]

Memory & Hope: Restoring the Teaching of American History

By |2025-01-23T18:32:32-06:00January 23rd, 2025|Categories: American Republic, Conservatism, Education, History, Hope, Liberalism, Progressivism, Timeless Essays|

The currently pervading approach to American history presents America in the worst possible light, distorting the full truth of our past and damaging our political health. Our K-12 schools need a restoration of temporal continuity, the key to revitalizing history and civics education that forms young people who both appreciate the gifts of the past [...]

The Second Trump Administration: Back to the Future?

By |2025-01-24T01:24:07-06:00January 19th, 2025|Categories: David Deavel, Donald Trump, Government, Hope, Politics, Presidency, Senior Contributors|

Donald Trump has a second chance, with a much better understanding of how things work in Washington and whom to trust there, to have a transformative presidency. The absurdity is finally over. Almost. The insanity of the national Democrats we have seen over the last four years, particularly since Donald Trump’s November defeat of Kamala [...]

Hail to the Chief! Music for American Presidents

By |2025-01-20T17:44:48-06:00January 19th, 2025|Categories: Audio/Video, Music, Presidency, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Timeless Essays|

We Americans like to think of ourselves as anti-monarchical; most of us on the Right are self-styled small-r republicans, while Leftists think of themselves as small-d democrats. In addition, we all, Right and Left, fancy that what unites Americans is devotion to a set of ideas to which we all adhere, and which are best [...]

Immigration Policy & the Forgotten Right to a Homeland

By |2025-01-15T15:28:54-06:00January 15th, 2025|Categories: American Republic, Immigration, John Horvat, Nationalism, Rule of Law|

There is one aspect of the immigration debate that most liberals do not like to discuss. Recognizing a right for anyone to flee misfortune, liberals invite them to pour over the border, which most do illegally. However, they refuse to look at the reasons behind the growing migrant stream and seek to stop it. Dealing [...]

The Difference Between Fellow Travelers and Friends

By |2025-01-14T09:26:16-06:00January 14th, 2025|Categories: Barbara J. Elliott, Politics, Timeless Essays, Traditional Conservatives and Libertarians|

The rich soil of faith, family, and friends is where community is formed, where relationships flourish, where roots go down that nourish us. This is where those of us who are rooted in Christ seek to walk out our faith in tangible deeds of sacrifice, loyalty and love, in relationship with people whose names we [...]

Jimmy Carter & John Lennon’s Leftist Anthem

By |2025-01-12T12:01:44-06:00January 12th, 2025|Categories: Christianity, Communism, Dwight Longenecker, Music, Presidency, Religion, Senior Contributors|

Jimmy Carter was a nice, good man who epitomized American Christianity’s reduction to Moralistic, Therapeutic Deism. As such, the singing of John Lennon's atheistic "Imagine"—Carter's favorite song—at the former president's funeral was entirely appropriate. Last week at former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral, country singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang ex-Beatle John Lennon’s song Imagine, [...]

Abolish the Hereditary Lords in the British Parliament?

By |2025-01-08T19:48:51-06:00January 8th, 2025|Categories: England, Equality, Government, Ideology, John Horvat, Liberalism|

The United Kingdom’s Labour Party government is presenting a bill to abolish the hereditary lords from the upper chamber of Parliament. Hereditary lords are those House of Lords’ members who inherit the right to sit in the upper House based on services rendered to the realm. Many storied families have retained this right for generations. [...]

A Big Idea: Reorganizing the 50 States

By |2024-12-19T09:38:36-06:00December 18th, 2024|Categories: American Republic, Government, Satire|

It’s morning again in America. Trump has reclaimed the presidency, and a popular vote majority supercharges his mandate. But morning means it’s time to get to work. While we may now be unburdened by the disaster of a Harris administration, big changes are necessary. For the past sixteen years, we’ve heard the fantasies of the [...]

1968: The Year That Broke Politics

By |2024-12-12T16:51:40-06:00December 12th, 2024|Categories: Books, Politics|

Whether 1968 really was “the year that broke politics” is, at best, debatable. But it certainly was a year during which past patterns of politics were seriously upended. In other words, the title of Luke A. Nichter's book is more eye-catching than accurate. Nonetheless, there was collusion and chaos aplenty in that fateful year. The [...]

Witnessing to a Bureaucracy That Cannot Love

By |2024-12-12T09:10:30-06:00December 11th, 2024|Categories: Christianity, Civil Society, Culture, Family, Freedom, Government, Love|

The challenge we face today is humanizing a Bureaucratic Regime, just as our ancestors humanized a German warrior regime. We’re in the position of the Apostle Paul, handcuffed to a Praetorian guard. As the Bubble grows more psychotic and inhumane, opportunities for evangelistic kindness and witness multiply exponentially. As we survey our emerging Bureaucratic Regime [...]

The Problem Is the Banana on the Wall

By |2024-12-05T11:13:19-06:00December 5th, 2024|Categories: Art, Culture, Culture War, John Horvat, Politics|

Everyone has an explanation for the turn of events in November. It’s the economy, the culture, a failure to connect with working-class Americans. All these are valid reasons. However, I have my own explanation that sheds some light on what has gone wrong in America. It explains something of the craziness of our times. I [...]

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