When think tanks lose their way
When we debuted the FreeCon statement in 2023, it bore the names of several Heritage scholars. They were soon compelled to remove their names. It was a telling sign of things to come.
In today’s politics, some Americans who consider themselves to be on the right reject the classical liberalism of free markets and individual liberty.
Is there a hierarchy of Americanism? Many National Conservatives and other on the populist Right appear to think so. Using such terms as “legacy Americans” and “heritage Americans,” they distinguish citizens whose ancestors arrived in the United States before the 20th century from those whose ancestors arrived more recently, or who are themselves naturalized Americans....
If the right fails to police their side and lets it be conquered by white nationalism and conspiracy madness, we will be dragged down the same way the left has been by "woke." And we will have nobody to blame but ourselves.
As it turns out, conservative media personality Tucker Carlson and U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel, a freshman Democratic member of Congress, share more than merely a passion for politics. The Carolina Journal has discovered that the two men on polar opposite sides of the political spectrum are second cousins.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis’ negative reaction to Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s Jan. 6 narrative. Kokai offered these comments for a March 9, 2023, report on WNCN (CBS17).