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...
Political conservatism, say its critics, is less a rational movement to shape the future than an irrational impulse to flee the present. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. famously called it “the politics of nostalgia.” In reality, the temptation to romanticize the past is evident across the ideological spectrum. Politicians, activists, and intellectuals often wax nostalgic about...
In the introduction to “Paul Revere’s Ride” by the historian David Hackett Fischer, he notes that “The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical ‘dead white male,’ is the dead white male on horseback.” It was an almost amusing line when Fischer wrote it in the mid-1990s, but now the lack of appreciation...
When people in positions of power or influence abandon the norms of civil discourse and representative government, they aren’t just expressing a political opinion.
Ideas are powerful. They change minds and motivate behavior. They are also potentially dangerous.
Additional progress will have to come largely from productivity gains, not from simply spending tomorrow’s money on yesterday’s terms.
Nine of the 10 most-taxed states have Democratic legislatures. Most of the 10 least-taxed states have Republican legislatures.
American conservatism – that fusion of free-market economics, traditional values, and constitutionalism – owes a great deal to North Carolina.
Those who dismiss complaints about ideological balance and diversity in public universities ask what the harm is in exposing students to "new ideas." Are they serious?
Esteemed North Carolinians of the past, through their quotes, show the way to identifying and expunging government corruption.
Those who dismiss complaints about ideological balance and diversity in public universities ask what the harm is in exposing students to "new ideas." Are they serious?
