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3 weeks ago | 
theblaze.com | Paul Gottfried
Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel recently launched an unexpectedly harsh attack on Vice President JD Vance in her piece, “Vance Courts Trouble for Trump.” Strassel took issue with Vance’s criticism of the Supreme Court — specifically Chief Justice John Roberts — for refusing to rein in lower courts that continue to block the president’s immigration enforcement efforts.
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3 weeks ago | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul Gottfried
On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilizationby Douglas Murray Broadside Books 240 pp., $30.00Some books provide far more benefit to their authors than to their readers. Douglas Murray’s latest, a tribute to Israel as the bright light of world civilization, is one such example.
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3 weeks ago | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul Gottfried
For many decades, I’ve argued against making Zionist nationalism a centerpiece of American conservatism. I came to this view after having unintentionally offended high-placed Zionists in the American conservative establishment. In 1987, I discovered to my shock that several of these people called the dean of humanities at Catholic University of America to warn against giving me a graduate professorship in political theory.
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4 weeks ago | 
dailycaller.com | Paul Gottfried
In a recent column, Rich Lowry announced to our supposed relief that we’ve reached “the end of the woke road.” The signs of political correctness that came with the death of George Floyd are supposedly vanishing before our eyes. The media are now “running rueful retrospectives about how the sweeping, nearly irresistible changes catalyzed by that event sputtered out or backfired.
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1 month ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Paul Gottfried |Vladimir Golstein |Henry Olsen |Gary Saul Morson
Download Subscriber Only Subscribe A distinguished presbyterian theologian and incisive critic of the modern cult of the individual, Carl R. Trueman devotes his latest book, To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse, to the Frankfurt School and the rise of critical theory.
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1 month ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Luke Foster |Mark Helprin |Paul Gottfried |Tevi Troy
Download Subscriber Only Subscribe The French empire was built over two decades in a madcap dash for glory.
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1 month ago | 
claremontreviewofbooks.com | Anthony Esolen |Paul Gottfried |Gary Saul Morson
Download Subscriber Only Subscribe Death holds the ultimate mystery for human beings, and consequently the question how best to live presents one with a darkness hardly less difficult to fathom. A good death is of course the fitting end to a good life—though Christians believe that deathbed conversion can absolve one of a life badly spent, as in Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
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1 month ago | 
theblaze.com | Paul Gottfried
Let’s cut through the wishful thinking. Contrary to what you may hear on Fox News or from conservative pundits, the Democratic Party isn’t imploding. The happy talk about a collapse may feel good, but it doesn’t reflect political reality. Yes, the party’s popularity has cratered in the polls — down to 27% according to some surveys. Yes, Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Jasmine Crockett of Texas are sideshow acts. And yes, elected officials like Rep.
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1 month ago | 
chroniclesmagazine.org | Paul Gottfried
The neoconservative foreign policy analyst and scholar Michael Ledeen died on Saturday. I am sorely grieved by his death, even though we differed on some of his hallmark positions such as his support for the invasion of Iraq. As one can imagine, I am no fan of the Committee for the Defense of Democracy or the other neoconservative organizations with which Michael was associated.
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1 month ago | 
theblaze.com | Paul Gottfried
Donald Trump’s glowingly successful efforts at building relations with Arab leaders have evoked criticism from neoconservative skeptics. One such example appears in Rich Lowry’s column on “the Trump doctrine,” prominently featured in Friday’s New York Post. Though the Post has relentlessly exposed hypocritical and dishonest attacks on Trump’s domestic policies, its editors never seem quite able to throw off their constricting neoconservative view of foreign affairs. Lowry quips that while George W.
