Published in The Detroit News At the Michigan Republican Party’s state convention on August 23, I was struck that Common Core garnered far more attention than any other social issue like abortion, gay marriage or gun rights. One candidate for regent of the University of Michigan was rewarded with rapturous applause after he slammed the…
Category: Conservatism
The Brooklyn Burkeans [NATIONAL AFFAIRS] The history of neoconservatism involves decades of intellectual evolution beginning well before the heady 1960s.
Published in National Affairs The meaning, legacy, and future of neoconservatism are often hotly contested subjects. But the history of neoconservatism — particularly its early history — has long been deemed largely settled territory. According to the prevailing narrative, members of the first generation of neoconservatives — perhaps the most famous among them being Irving…
Tempering the Conservative Outrage at Michigan State [WEEKLY STANDARD] Let radical professors hang themselves with their own rope.
Published on The Weekly Standard Hardly an academic semester goes by without a high-profile opportunity arising for the right to address pervasive, perennial anti-conservative animus on the American college campus. And hardly an academic semester goes by without the right, reflexively blinded by righteous indignation, blowing an opportunity to do so. Too often, conservatives, in a…
Has the “Iron Lady” Rusted? [MARTLET] Margaret Thatcher's legacy hangs in the balance due to the financial crisis.
Published in The Martlet On 6 February in the Old Library, Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher’s authorized biographer, former editor of The Spectator, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Daily Telegraph, delivered Pembroke’s second Adam Smith Lecture in Political Economy, “Has the ‘Iron Lady’ Rusted? Margaret Thatcher and the Crisis of Capitalism.” Given Moore’s credentials, no one in the audience that packed the Old Library…