Politics & Power 483

The hubris of ingratitude is a caustic acid that reduces all in its wake to the fetid condition of servitude, for a spoiled child needs nothing so much as a…

Soon-to-be-former United States Senator from Utah, Bob Bennett, gives some advice to the Tea Party activists who helped unseat him at Utah GOP convention: don't be like Jimmy Carter, be…

The Cato Institute sponsors a symposium on Philip Blond, with a lead essay by yours truly.

If Lasch couldn't express a way for leftists and localists to speak the same language, perhaps no one can.

There are many reasons to wonder about the wisdom of confirming Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court. What strikes me most about her nomination is the typically phony way Washington…

Is there really any limit to political consolidation, when the very effects of that consolidation ensure the creation of even larger economic, military, and other crises that require more expansive…

In the American context, one could very easily call Red Tories Jeffersonians, and this is where we see the predicament for Red Toryism in the United States.

There's an honest-to-god crunchy-con candidate in the northern Wisconsin woods.

The less-than-majority showing by the Conservatives make it likely that any power they do achieve will come through an alliance with the least Red Tory party of them all.

Whatever the results of the British election, the Red Tory ideal remains promising...and yet, absent a robust civic religion, also probably wanting.

We should have been courageous, he said; we will have to face the consequences of our lack of courage, he said.

We shouldn’t complain about socialists and charlatans in power if we’re not willing to fund alternatives. We shouldn’t bemoan the power of big money if we’re not willing to utilize…

The American Bolsheviks, on the other hand, are the mad-as-hell Tea Party with their sexpot Lenin Sarah Palin, fresh from cash-cow book tour and on a First Class Junket into…

But if there is one thing that both Democrats and Republicans agreed about in the 90's, it was that these “monstrosities” didn't need to be regulated.

Noah Millman says blame the money, and he's right.

I can’t seem to get the Orwellian thought of a “National Department of Bigness” out of my head – where everything is kept small and local…except the Department.

Making the case for nuclear power. Since everyone else is.

Ross Douthat reflects on the way in which globalization, the mass media, and participatory democracy make local control so difficult to maintain.

Ralph Nader recently spoke at a university in the Heart of Dixie. We tried to build some bridges.

Now that GM stands for “Government Motors” who can love a Chevy? In many ways, seat belt laws paved the way for this transformation. Government straps me in, government keeps…

Fr. Michael Orsi reviews Kauffman's Luther Martin, and finds wisdom therein.

Perhaps out of these fissures and the current populist turmoil, someone might be able to craft a new, more coherent, and more promising Christian and Democratic coalition.

If your religion--or at least your concept of the moral norms of the civil order--lacks a notion of grace, it therefore also lacks a notion of gifts; all it can…

But how can such plural sovereignty be realised under the circumstances of this century? Who will guard the guardians, so to speak? How will the stones of the arch fit…