The Political Adviser

We’re not sure why, but the other day, the conservative commentator Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) dredged up a three-year-old interview...

Over the course of the last couple of weeks, the opposition to President Trump has morphed into opposition to the entire federal...

Before there was a Left, there was no Right. Of course, there had been many conflicts during the preceding fifteen or so centuries...

Our story today opens in a prison cell in Italy where a sickly, diminutive, brilliant, thirty-six-year-old fellow named Antonio Gramsci...

Twenty years ago last month, we penned one of our favorite and most controversial pieces. Regular readers will recognize it well, not...

We were remiss last week in that we failed to note the ugly but important 52nd anniversary of the start of Mao Tse Tung’s “Great...

This past Tuesday, May 8th, was the 119th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Hayek. Although Hayek was a serious economist who won the...

A few weeks back, in a piece on Orwell and the effects of imprecise language, we argued that the contemporary use of the term “Nazi” was...

Much has been said and written about the tragic case of Alfie Evans, a two-year old British child with a thus-far undiagnosed...

Christianity has been at war with leftist atheism since the 17th century, when the ideology that would become known as the Left emerged...

The primary purpose of this web site is to “educate and enlighten” – just as it says at the top of the home page. Being both...

In an essay entitled "Politics and the English Language," written in 1946, George Orwell argued that political disorder was inevitably...

History and literature are replete with examples of men and women who bravely risked their lives and their reputations for a cause that...

So...Congress just passed a massive budget bill, which Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana rightly described as "a Great Dane-sized whiz...

We were sorry to hear that the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking has died. We are not smart enough to have understood virtually any...

Last week, when Gary Cohn resigned as head of the National Economic Council, President Trump light-heartedly described him as a...

If, over the last few weeks, you have paid attention to the mainstream media, you are likely under the impression that the United States...

If Jean-Jacque Rousseau is the patron saint of American liberals, which is a commonly held belief among educated conservatives, then we...