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Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:48:56 AM
One of the goals of the next conservatism should be to restore the American republic rather than continue our march toward empire, with the loss of liberties that inevitably entails. Restoring the republic, in turn, means restoring the grand strategy America followed through most of its history. That grand strategy was defensive, not offensive. Tuesday, April 04, 2006 08:31:56 PM
The ongoing demonstrations and riots against a change in French labor laws are as normal for France as snails for dinner. Most Frenchmen agree that France is, and should remain, a mercantilist rather than a capitalist country. Monday, March 06, 2006 08:11:07 PM
During the Cold War American conservatives faced an easy choice. On one side was the United States and the free world, which represented good. On the other was the Soviet Union and world communism, which was evil. Tuesday, January 24, 2006 12:59:10 PM
For years, conservatives have warned that America’s children are not learning to read, and indeed are not reading: the classics of Western literature are now largely unknown to them. The next conservatism will have to confront the results of this dual functional and cultural illiteracy. Specifically, it will have to face the fact that American culture is increasingly post-literate. Wednesday, December 07, 2005 01:50:19 PM
Paul Weyrich asked me to turn my historian’s eye on the question of “Where are we?”, which he has considered from several aspects in his last two columns. I am afraid my answer to that question cannot be an encouraging one. From an historical perspective we are living in a house of cards. Monday, November 07, 2005 10:46:57 PM
Paul Weyrich asked me to write this column to lay out a framework conservatives can use to understand the threats America faces. It is a framework I developed in the 1980s, when I was working closely with the United States Marine Corps on questions of military theory and doctrine. I call it “the Four Generations of Modern War.” Monday, October 24, 2005 10:14:11 PM
In his columns on the next conservatism, Paul Weyrich has several times referred to “cultural Marxism.” He asked me, as Free Congress Foundation’s resident historian, to write this column explaining what cultural Marxism is and where it came from. In order to understand what something is, you have to know its history. Monday, August 29, 2005 04:51:35 AM
My two columns on the idea of a national militia as the best response to the Fourth Generation threat generated some comments that are worthy of contemplation. We will consider some of them here. Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:21:13 PM
I spent last week in Pittsfield, Maine, at a symposium on modern war called by Colonel Mike Wyly, USMC Retired. Col. Wyly was one of the heroes of the maneuver warfare movement in the Marine Corps in the 1970s and 1980s. Saturday, July 23, 2005 07:54:36 AM
In 1939, the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact cleared the way for Hitler to start World War II. The Pact caught the world by surprise, because it was an alliance between two bitter enemies, Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. |
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