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Writing for the Wall Street Journal, American Enterprise Institute president Arthur C. Brooks recently suggested that the G.O.P. is way off base in their assumptions about the moral arguments that resonate most with the American people.  Their focus on the…

Infantile Conservatism

by Pat Buchanan on February 26, 2013 · 5 comments

Regularly now, The Washington Post, as always concerned with fairness and balance, runs a blog called “Right Turn: Jennifer Rubin’s Take From a Conservative Perspective.” The blog tells us what the Post regards as conservatism.
On Monday, Rubin declared that…

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With their November loss to Barack Obama, Republicans continue to hotly debate the future of their party. Liberal Democrats are happy to jump in, basically urging conservatives to agree with them, and be like them. “How should Republicans appeal…

On a dark February afternoon in 1988, 25 students in a U.S. Constitutional History class waited expectantly in a little-used dining hall on the campus of Grove City College (in Grove City, Pennsylvania) for a special guest lecturer to arrive. …

Restoring the Foundations of Civil Society

by Ken Connor November 28, 2012

In the wake of President Obama’s decisive reelection, the GOP is engaged in some serious soul-searching.  Pundits on the Right and Left are cautioning Republicans that their party is facing extinction unless some major changes are made.  They maintain it’s…

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The Silver Lining for Conservatives

by Keith Koffler November 26, 2012

There is no minimizing the catastrophe for conservatives that occurred on Election Day. The United States voted for four more years of the most leftist occupant ever of the Oval Office.
And yet, President Obama’s triumph offers conservatives opportunities that…

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Why I Am Not a Libertarian

by Nathan Schlueter April 10, 2012

The contemporary Tea Party Movement, like its revolutionary ancestor, looks to principles for guidance. Yet an old but active fault line runs just beneath the surface of the movement that has the potential to cause a fatal rupture. Tea Partiers…

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The Problem with Compassionate Conservatism

by Dr. Samuel Gregg January 20, 2012

The rise — at least temporarily — of Rick Santorum has given rise to speculation of late, most notably by David Brooks, that it might facilitate a rethinking on the right about how America addresses some of the hard-to-deny social…

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