Paul Gottfried

Paul Gottfried


  • July 21, 2023

    Getting Biden Wrong

    Telling us more about Democrat outrages will not likely help the GOP. What may help is avoiding a repeat of 2020. 

  • June 24, 2023

    Living in a Media World

    Americans on the Left and Right are not looking at the same reality. 

  • May 29, 2023

    How the Democrats are Destroying Large Cities

    Democratic urban rule is becoming increasingly chaotic, particularly as it turns in a woke direction.

  • August 12, 2022

    More Statue Nonsense from Florida

    Did Ron DeSantis bow down to the woke mob?

  • November 26, 2021

    The Real Lesson of the Rittenhouse Trial

    The reason the judicial system has become so evil so fast is that the media abets violence against those they decide to destroy.

  • June 21, 2021

    Are We Stuck with Biden?

    Biden may end up like Obama, remaining personally popular while his party loses elections. 

  • November 24, 2020

    The Virtues of Being Graceless

    It may be far more productive for Trump to show defiance than exude graciousness. 

  • March 15, 2020

    Since When Is Joe Biden a 'Moderate'?

    There is no indication that Biden will be practicing any kind of "moderation" if elected. 

  • January 28, 2020

    Triangulation: Erdogan's Secret Weapon

    Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been teasing the “West” by dealing with its designated adversary, even to the point of being willing to suffer the predictable consequences. 

  • October 26, 2019

    Is Buchanan Right about Democracy?

    "Democracy" may be in death spiral, but what kind of democracy?

  • July 14, 2019

    Human Rights and Foreign Policy

    Exactly what kind of "human rights" is the State Department trying to foster?

  • June 23, 2019

    How Not to Argue Against Abortion Rights

    The pro-life movement need not adapt arguments against eugenics and slavery to condemn abortion. 

  • April 25, 2019

    Mayor Pete's Advantage

    The Republican response to Buttigieg’s playing the gay card to the hilt has been to try to ignore it.

  • April 5, 2019

    What goes around...

    Joe Biden discovers a home truth that most of us are coming to know. 

  • January 15, 2019

    Striking at a King

    The usual suspects have dropped their lorgnettes and collpased onto their fainting couches over Steve King.

  • December 19, 2018

    Burying the Weekly Standard

    The Standard was an utterly superfluous appendage of the neoconservative empire, which didn't contribute anything new to our political debate that other, well subsidized neoconservative organs weren't already saying.

  • December 14, 2018

    A Successful Disruption

    In the aid conferred on Donald Trump's enemies, Robert Mueller has performed miracles.

  • November 17, 2018

    Conservatism and Change

    One should not confuse the instinct to keep everything in place with holding conservative principles.

  • November 7, 2018

    The Cult City Triumphant

    The San Francisco of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk was a preview of today's Democratic Party.

  • October 28, 2018

    'Informed Voters' Are Not the Solution

    Loyalties and hostilities are not always reducible to a question of information.

  • September 30, 2018

    Birthright Citizenship and Natural Rights

    Republics have been much more fastidious than empires about who could join them. 

  • August 10, 2018

    What Conservative Canon?

    The American conservative movement in all its permutations has steadily pushed the idea of a "secular canon."

  • August 1, 2018

    Trump and Carl Schmitt: An Unlikely Association

    Do President Trump's ideas originate with an abstruse German legal philosopher?

  • June 27, 2018

    Conservatism, Inc. Indulges Its Own

    Any conservative celebrity may lunge to the left without fear of being kicked out of the movement entirely or shunned by other conservative rock stars.

  • June 12, 2018

    A Conservatism of Principle

    What differentiated the conservative movement of bygone years from what has taken its place was a willingness to express sharp internal disagreement and to defend conflicting positions with passion and high learning. 

  • June 9, 2018

    Orwell the Leftist

    The 20th century's great enemy of totalitarianism simply couldn't take that last step away from socialism.

  • June 2, 2018

    By What Right Do You Judge?

    Conservatism, Inc. has long practiced the kind of censorship one might expect from the Communist Party. 

  • May 5, 2018

    The Pleasures of Bullying

    SJWs target a noted historian at Florida Atlantic University.

  • April 3, 2018

    Exonerating Mussolini?

    Can Mussolini be raised from a stereotyped villain to someone who is at least worth understanding? 

  • March 23, 2018

    A Harmless Persuasion: Conservatives and Traditionalism

    Catholic and Orthodox traditionalists wear their piety on the sleeves but rarely offend the left.

  • March 6, 2018

    Corporate America and the Left

    Are corporate heads betraying the free enterprise system that has allowed them to flourish?

  • March 1, 2018

    Trump and Old-Time Democrats

    Trump has rattled establishment Republicans because of his alliance with the old Democratic Party, including Southern Baptists, the white ethnic working class, and critics of largely unrestricted immigration. 

  • February 16, 2018

    Bill Kristol Is Not Yet Out

    It's far too early to count Bill Kristol as a spent force in conservatism. 

  • February 8, 2018

    Getting the Culprits Right

    Postmodernists may or may not have built on Marxist ideology, but their ideas are not Marxist in origin.

  • January 30, 2018

    Inventing the Political Center

    Centrism is not about occupying a vital center between two extremes, although our centrists sometimes claim they’re doing this. 

  • January 23, 2018

    Conservatism and Chronological Isolation

    What movement conservatives now profess is far less conservative than what they used to believe. 

  • January 17, 2018

    Does Conservative Populism Exist?

    Steve Bannon's collapse raises serious doubts as to his "populist" political stance. 

  • January 12, 2018

    The Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism

    Long before Saul Alinsky, Frankfurt School Marxists pioneered methods of undermining American norms.

  • January 6, 2018

    Conservatives Ignore the Obvious

    Rather than engage with red-hot social issues, too many Republicans try not to notice these issues, except to criticize those who won't accept "necessary" or "positive" change. 

  • December 21, 2017

    An Empty 'Conservative' Victory

    Does anyone in his right mind believe that Douglas Jones will not act as Trump said he would, as a tool of Chuck Schumer and those leftist constituencies that helped put him in office?

  • November 25, 2017

    Misreading Putin

    We will never be able to deal with Vladimir Putin until we understand that he does not represent a resurgent Soviet communism.

  • November 16, 2017

    Jonah's Off Target Again

    The N.R.'s Jonah Goldberg is a socially liberal Republican and an urbanite who doesn't fancy the working-class and rural white constituencies that voted for Trump. 

  • October 25, 2017

    Are We Really Talking about Nationalism?

    Former president Bush has weighed in by more or less espousing the left’s position.

  • September 3, 2017

    Ryszard Legutko and the Failings of Democracy

    From liberalism, liberal democracy has taken its militant doctrine of pluralism, which has been turned against the very diversity it claims to be protecting.  

  • June 3, 2017

    Why #NeverTrumps Persist on the Conventional Right

    The issues that define "conservatism" for some #NeverTrumps, like liberal internationalism and tax breaks for the upper class, are not the kind of positions that appeal to the populist right. 

  • May 1, 2017

    How the Right can Learn from the Neocons

    There is no magic bullet by which decades and even generations of leftist penetration of political and cultural institutions can be reversed in one presidential race. 

  • April 20, 2017

    Words That May Never Be Heeded

    A certain hyperbole and obscuring of the full truth are seen as necessary to advance the kind of society that progressives want us to embrace.

  • April 8, 2017

    Was American Intervention in WW I Justified?

    An honest attempt at mediating a peace would have been better than American military intervention on the Allied side.

  • April 3, 2017

    Did the Middlebury Riot Betray an Excess of Virtue?

    Why should we regard overgrown kids visiting physical harm on unwelcome guests as practitioners of "virtue"? 

  • March 8, 2017

    The Democrats and the Left Are Pursuing a Clever Strategy

    The left may be following an effective strategy for discrediting someone they hate.

  • March 4, 2017

    Do Classical Conservative Worldviews Make Sense Any Longer?

    Is it possible to be on the right without embracing the classical conservative worldview? 

  • February 9, 2017

    The Death of Marxism Revisited

    There is more continuity between the old-time Marxists and the left-wing multiculturalists than it seems.

  • December 26, 2016

    Dressed to Kill in New York

    Keeping up with the non-deplorables

  • December 24, 2016

    Gotcha Conservatism

    Liberals are not the only ones to abuse historical comparisons.

  • August 11, 2016

    The Vote Horse Has Bolted

    What the left believes and implements is totally incompatible with living in a stable constitutional republic or monarchy of the kind that has made Western freedoms possible.

  • August 7, 2016

    What is 'Honorable'?

    Trump stands together with his followers and happily fights their enemies, which is precisely his duty as a presidential contender with a national base.