Conservatism: Death and resurrection
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
The triumph of President Barack Obama is a watershed in American history. It marks the end of a rearguard conservative movement that has failed to dominate American politics and society. Yet, as we examine the ...
Rainbow conservatism
By Dr. Grace Vuoto
The Republican rout in November presents an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and to rebuild the conservative movement. It is time to start anew and it should include expanding minority outreach. The results of ...
I lost my country
By Herbert London
The results are in and my candidate lost the presidency. Since I love this country, I wish President Barack Obama every success. But this was an election unlike any other. I don’t think the Republicans ...
Illegal immigration destroys the environment
By Mark Carbonaro
One issue not discussed by either major party candidate during the 2008 presidential race is a topic that is one of America’s “elephants in the room”: illegal immigration and border security. Along with conservatives, this ...
Standing up to the Russian mutant
By Andrei Piontkovsky
The corporatist kleptocracy being erected by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is profoundly misunderstood in the West. Western defenders and apologists of the Putin regime trot out a pet argument which migrates from one publication ...
U.S. must champion democratic realism in Mideast
By Frederick Krantz
By what must be termed a minor political miracle, owed to the convoluted politics of its proportional-representation electoral system, Israel today, following the resignation of corruption-plagued Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, faces an election on February ...
Conservatives must overturn Roe v. Wade
By Joseph Beaudoin
Before it became a nation of laws on Sept. 17, 1787, with the adoption of the Constitution, the United States of America had been one of ideals for over a decade. These ideals were much ...
Obama’s radical abortion agenda
By Loredana Vuoto
President Barack Obama will give new meaning to “abortion on demand” when he takes control of the White House. According to the incoming president, one of the first things he will do when he takes ...
The myth of Hitler’s pope
By Dr. Grace Vuoto
Few issues are more contentious between Catholics and Jews than the Vatican’s role in the Second World War. It has even led to diplomatic tensions between Rome and Tel Aviv. On Oct. 19, the Vatican ...
Racism in America’s classrooms?
By Jonathan Kelly
The Western canon is under assault. It is common to read news stories in which the great classic works of Western civilization are being banned for not being “politically correct.” Some attacks on freedom of ...
Toward ‘reform realism’ in federal education policy
By Michael J. Petrilli
The federal role in education is in greater flux today and beset with more disputes and dilemmas than at any time in the past decade. Since at least the dawn of the 21st century, a ...
Obama’s disastrous health care plan
By Robert M. Goldberg
Recently, Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, urged the leaders of corporate America to join the new administration in a push for universal health care reform, telling a group of CEOs that “incremental ...
