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The End of Partisanship?
The other day during an International Relations class, I was briefly distracted from structural adjustments and balance of payment accounts and decided to engage in a Twitter conversation with the...
View ArticleThe Fracturing of the Conservative Movement
This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, thanks to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. It was a fantastic time meeting up with good...
View ArticleWhat Has Small Government to do with Conservatism?
Much like the fact that OJ really was guilty or that Michael Jackson liked to share the wealth (Jesus Juice) with the children, Americans generally accept that conservatism and small government go...
View ArticleSmall Government Has Everything To Do With Conservatism
A couple days ago, fellow Intercollegiate Review writer, Chase Padusniak, published a very interesting post. Titled “What Has Small Government to do with Conservatism?” Chase examines the relationship...
View ArticleProtesting Funerals Should Be Illegal
Mary Fallin of Oklahoma (my home state) signed a law into effect that hinders hate groups, such as the Westboro Baptist Church, from protesting the funerals of soldiers. Although this bill has...
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The Buck Doesn’t Stop
Our Town “Altruism is the basis of the conception of a brotherhood of man without a Father.” -Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics & Gnosticism The stereotypes are tiresome, but ring hollow....
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Delaying the Employer Mandate: Unconstitutional Authority
George Will is out with a new column on President Obama’s unilateral decision to suspend the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate. The statutory language of the ACA requires that the employer...
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Russell Kirk: Godfather of Modern American Conservatism
Chances are you haven’t heard the name Russell Kirk escape the lips of many conservative pundits. That’s a shame, because Kirk was one of the principal founders of the modern conservative movement. In...
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The Only Alternative to Big Government
Source: barackobama.com In 2012 the campaign to reelect Barack Obama posted a web ad called “The Life of Julia.” Divided into slides depicting various stages of life, the ad followed Julia’s progress...
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The Problem with the Conservative Movement is Movement
What does it mean to be a conservative? Well, Michael Oakeshott once wrote an essay titled “On Being Conservative” and not “On Conservatism.” Oakeshott’s title is deliberate because it reflects his...
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Education in the Ruins
Chambers rebuilding his city “It is idle to talk about preventing the wreck of Western Civilization. It is already a wreck from within. That is why we can do little more now than snatch a fingernail of...
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Is there a moral basis for the free-market?
I recently traveled to Jacksonville State University in the small, north Alabama town of Jacksonville. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies hosted a debate...
View ArticleRediscovering our Love for Big, Powerful, Centralized Government
Amidst all the brouhaha of Senator Ted Cruz filibustering Obamacare, Senator Harry Reid responding by labeling tea-partiers as anarchists, and the resulting government shutdown, it’s easy to forget...
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Herbert Hoover’s Crusade Against Collectivism
Introduction by George H. Nash Note by the book’s editor: This introduction is adapted from The Crusade Years, 1933–1955: Herbert Hoover’s Lost Memoir of the New Deal Era and Its Aftermath, edited and...
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Libertarians vs. Liberal Learning
We’re excited to present this exclusive look at the Winter 2014 issue of Modern Age, which is just hitting mailboxes and newsstands. In this lead article, Peter Augustine Lawler looks at the latest...
View ArticlePolitics is Passé
Politics is scary. From Game of Thrones to House of Cards, contemporary culture is saturated with enough realpolitik to make Henry Kissinger the patron saint of our age. Indeed, this is nothing new....
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In Memoriam: Richard Mellon Scaife (1932–2014)
On July 4, the publisher and philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife passed away. Heir to the Mellon banking fortune, Mr. Scaife was a “far-sighted and principled philanthropist,” in the words of...
View Article“Conservative” is a Dirty Word
In 2006, the rap group Three 6 Mafia won an Academy Award for their song “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp” from the film Hustle & Flow. Regardless of how one feels about the song, I can’t shake the...
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In Defense of Bad Conservatives
I suspect by now the reader will have a clear subject for the predicate of this essay’s title. ‘Bad Conservatives.’ They exist as ideological cousins. Like cousins, you would most likely claim them if...
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Rad Trads and Rad Fems: Best Friends
A recent piece from my colleague Mr. John Goerke, reminded me how much I love David Foster Wallace. Any man who can write a pair of undergraduate theses on English literature and modal logic has my...
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