This morning’s Washington Post reveals the announcement of the Gillespie for Governor leadership team and the unveiling of a new website on top of the mutli-figure warchest in the Team Virginia PAC.
We are not dealing with an hate-driven ideology in the alt-right, but rather an ideology driven by tribalism — a hypothetically neutral, passionless appeal designed to weaponize and identity that will drive both cultural and political aspirations.
Prepare yourself for awesome. Bayesian theory has been around for many years, but the predictive power of Bayesian Model Selection is showing a tremendous amount of promise that might actually offer the social sciences the Holy Grail of reproducibility…
As conservatives, we should be frightened by this because that symbolizes an abandonment of what makes conservatism conservative. It strikes at the very essence of our movement and philosophy. We’re not consistent; we’re far too willing to abandon principles for the sake of political expediency. Both sides are now using the same playbook to fight and win.
Jefferson assured the Danbury Baptists that the federal government would consider the church and state separate entities. He did not, however, offer that he would make the same separation between the state and God. Say what you will about the complicated and mutable theology of Jefferson and his Enlightened peers, but they understood that the…
The question here is not whether but when the secular West — both left and right — will fail, and in that failure what tradition supplants it.
For those who have never treated themselves to the scathing wit of Christopher Hitchens, the gaping hole felt by those who enjoyed his work and his opinion journalism while he was alive still remains five years after his passing. One of his first books — or at least, the one that made its introduction to…
If conservatives are to have and maintain a genuine voice in the public square, it has to be both open and fearless. Trump’s movement is a vehicle, not a force for conservatism. Likewise in Virginia, our elected officials serve as a vehicle for our values, not the reason why our values exist.
In this exchange, it is absolutely critical for Virginia’s to meet the challenges of the future mindful of the traditions of old. With each opportunity, the question should be the same: Can we meet these challenges with more freedom?