Though the actual survey respondents could also answer don t know,it s true that this format doesn t allow for much moderation or nuance. But that s what happens in American politics —…
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By Patrick J. Buchanan “For the first time since President Richard M. Nixon’s divisive ‘Southern strategy’ that sent whites to the Republican Party and blacks to the Democrats …” began a…
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Joseph Nye, the dean of liberal internationalism, has been regularly writing about Russia over the past few months. Given his position and his peerless credentials (Rhodes Scholar, Harvard…
It seems that people “believe” in climate change (really, global warming in particular) when it it hot out more than at other times. And by “people” I mean the population in general. It…
—Loren Rodgers, Watertown, Mass. In the early 19th century, as capitalist industrialization transformed Western European society, both advocates and critics of the emerging social order discussed it in similar terms. To early commentators, society was divided into broad social classes—landlords, laborers, capitalists—defined by their power over economic…
Read moreBarack Obama’s inauguration was the formal point at which the reigning ideology in Washington changed from “conservative” to “liberal.” We use those terms without apology, as they are used in American political discourse. Broadly, a “liberal’ subscribes to some or all of the following: progressive income taxation; universal health care of some kind;…
Read more3.3k Shares Share 2.7k Tweet 610 Share 3 Share 48 Share Email Print Share Photo: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images One of the most seismic changes in American politics over the last decade has been the emergence of a sharp generational split among the electorate. The Democratic Party owes its success in the last two presidential elections almost entirely…
Read more“Three recent events have made me reflect on a certain theme that should be of interest to religious-minded advocates of the free society, ” in this week’s Acton Commentary. The three events were: 1) an interview I gave to an Italian online publication in response to a French professor who claims that capitalism is the root cause of gender theory and…
Read moreValues vs Beliefs Knowing the difference between your beliefs and values can be a little confusing. People use both to guide their actions and behavior and to form their attitudes towards different things, but they are essentially different. Beliefs are the convictions that we generally hold to be true, usually without actual proof or evidence. They…
Read moreToday, as with any other day, I was bombarded by those fanatics in the Tea Party who are forever trolling on Twitter and ready to pounce with a ridiculous meme to put the rest of us in our place and define their preeminence over whatever issue they are on fire about at any given moment. First today I was offered an opinion that, because I am a Liberal…
Read moreMissouri’s Republican House Majority Leader Steven Tilley says Governor Jay Nixon should commute the death sentence of Dennis Skillicorn, who is scheduled to be executed on May 21. Citing revelations that another suspect committed the murder while Skillicorn was unaware of the murder plan, Tilley said, Certainly, that would be enough reasonable doubt…
Read moreSurvey Report Overall views of the U.S. Supreme Court – and its ideology – have changed only modestly since last measured in April before the court’s end-of-term decisions, including the Hobby Lobby ruling that limits the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive requirement. But among liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans there have been sizable…
Read moreTo my leftwing friends: Last night, someone sent me an email threatening to murder me because they disagree with my opinions. It read, in part: “F*ck you… I will find a way to kill you. Make no god d*mn mistake, you filth.” Concise. Eloquent. And now on file with the state police. After I reported the threat to law enforcement, I didn’t pay it much…
Read moreMy recent collision with Ben Affleck on Bill Maher’s show, Real Time, has provoked an extraordinary amount of controversy. It seems a postmortem is in order. For those who haven’t seen the show, most of what I write here won’t make sense unless you watch my segment: So what happened there? I admit that I was a little thrown by Affleck’s animosity. I…
Read moreUnder the current rules, to stand for leader candidates first have to win the support from 10% of MPs - though this is now less than one MP They also need the backing of at least 200 party members from at least 20 different local parties. Nominated candidates are then elected by the wider membership using the alternative vote system. With just a handful…
Read moreWhy is it that today’s liberals have become the most ardent cheerleaders of arbitrary monarchy? Wasn’t liberalism born of the effort to limit arbitrary rule of a single, unelected ruler? No, I’m not suggesting that the Left has suddenly decided that they regret the American Revolution. But, in nearly every leading liberal magazine, newspaper and blog…
Read moreThe federal budget is in and the battle is on. It will unfold, within three weeks at the outside, with the unveiling of a major Liberal economic plank many months in the making, intended to trump the income-splitting and moderately enhanced universal child benefit upon which the governing Conservatives have staked their political future. The fog of…
Read more‘Tim Farron does not seem inspired by the distrust of the state, freedom for individuals and, above all, instinctive tolerance that are hallmarks of his party’s traditional creed.’ Photograph: Felix Clay It has been largely forgotten, but two of the nation’s major political parties are now engaged in leadership contests. While the quartet of Labour…
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