It was the slam heard around the world, as North Carolina’s own, Congressman Patrick McHenry of the 10th Congressional District, brought his gavel down in frustration. His friend and mentor, now-former Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California, was just ousted, as the vast majority of Republicans were unable to hold off a mutiny of eight, led...
Last week, I conducted a Twitter poll asking a simple question: Does American conservatism require some level of belief in capitalism and free markets? With 434 votes cast, 79.5% said yes — an overwhelming supermajority that would melt the brains of NCPOL journos if it were Republican General Assembly election results. What does this anecdote...
Nov. 10, 1898, is an infamous day that forever exemplifies a tyrannical government’s capacity to murder and terrorize, even here in North Carolina. Most are unaware that this day also helped spawn many draconian laws that carry the echoes of terror even today. These terrorists and their sympathizers eventually implemented liquor prohibition, alcohol-control state laws...
More government, centralized power in Washington, overreaching government intervention in the market, state-enforced indoctrination of subjective morality, centering the collective over the individual, and coercing an anti-liberty agenda into the American polity. You would be correct if you read that and thought it described progressive leftism in America. You would also be correct if you...
A review of “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism” by Matthew Continetti. A master at synthesizing information is one way to describe Matthew Continetti’s 100-year history of conservatism. In the weeds and details of the conservative movement is where his account shines. Overall, despite his joyous recollections of the glory days of mid-2000s neoconservatism, the account...
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, it's well past time to re-examine the framework for right-of-center politics and policy.
Frank Meyer, National Review senior editor and proponent of “fusing” libertarian and traditionalist strains into modern conservatism, also had something provocative to say about the very possibility of social science.
RALEIGH — The rules governing North Carolina elections still show signs of the state’s history, a history in which black voters were denied the right to vote for decades after the official end of slavery. Lee Craig, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics at North Carolina State University, lectured on the topic “Home Rule and the Disenfranchisement of African-American Voters in North Carolina” for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society earlier this year. Craig discussed themes from that presentation with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Frank Meyer, National Review senior editor and proponent of “fusing” libertarian and traditionalist strains into modern conservatism, also had something provocative to say about the very possibility of social science.
