Politics & Power 484

The demonstrations in support of union power in Wisconsin ought to speak powerfully to all localists, despite the complicated baggage they bring with them.

If we continue reaching for the Twinkie, we shouldn't be surprised to find a government bureaucrat on the other end.

A group of Kentuckians are protesting mountaintop removal.

A review of a fine book by Glenn Moots which opens the door to rethinking about America theologically.

Here are two scenarios: one leads through democratic enlightenment to peace and prosperity, and the other through intractable economic problems to war and disintegration.

A revised foreign policy true to the principles of the Porch should turn the present one upside down.

Now and only now, when people are being eaten in famine-stricken areas, and hundreds, if not thousands, of corpses lie on the roads, we can (and therefore must) pursue the…

The last pro-life Democrat on a national ticket has died. R. Sargent Shriver, 1972 running mate of the best Democratic nominee since Al Smith, was an admirer of Catholic Worker…

Remembering Ike's "Farewell Address," fifty years later.

Here is your opportunity to name the worst-ever occupant of the White House.

TAC reconsiders Eisenhower's Farewell Address, delivered fifty years ago next month. Kauffman and yours truly participate in a fine symposium reflecting on the dangers of the "military-industrial complex."

But then Dylan is 69, and old enough to remember when the people of his place looked askance at empire. There were giants in the earth in those days.

From the mountaintop, the little people of this world appear very small indeed.

"Faced with the poverty, incompetence, and weak tyranny that real, existing socialism had delivered, many Poles I knew had begun a similar intellectual journey. And today, it’s the turn of…

Long live the King, somewhere damned else.

While there is much work to be done and there are no guarantees of success, we don’t have to look far for the foundations upon which to build. They are…

It was difficult to say whether they were on the far left or the far right or both simultaneously, but you were safe to identify them as radical, whichever political…

Ross Douthat suggests that the culture wars have moved to a different battlefield. I dissent.

The American Constitution, as it was originally written and understood, is the most monarchical-democratic document in the modern world.

A thing without proper limits becomes its own opposite, and benevolence quickly becomes a tyranny which threatens both civil and religious order.

herefore, it behooves me to cut directly to the chase, and state very clearly why I am a monarchist: “I am a monarchist because I am a democrat.”

At what price security? A call for national fortitude.

In which "culture" is distinguished from our contemporary "anti-culture."

The idea that the best way to reform government is to simply say "No!" is probably a bad idea...but for the TSA, I'll make an exception.