On “Nice” Liberals and “Mean” Conservatives
Some thoughts on a trope (and half-truth) that’s killing the conservative brand with young Americans.
Author: Avi Woolf
3rd class Elder of Zion. Wilderness conservative/traditionalist. Buckley Club alum. Chief editor of @conpathways.
New Conservatives: Do You Want Vengeance, Or A Solution?
New Conservatives need a practical vision of what they want to achieve with bureaucracies, and to stop bashing public service.
Don’t Be a “Kids These Days” Conservative
We conservatives now have a young person problem of at least two generations – millennials and Zers – where the old system does not seem to be working.
Ben Yehudah: Ode to a Street That Won’t Die
A farewell to a Jerusalem institution – the Ben Yehudah pedestrian mall – that showed me what true resilience looks like.
The Careening Cars and Multiple Nostalgias of Conservatives
“What do conservatives want to conserve?” An old election video may provide some answers – and more questions.
Make the 1920s Great Again? A Superficially Appealing Story of The Republican Party
Rather than a return to the Republican past, Trump was a bombastic expression of existing and continued trends.
Robert Taft: Infuriating Man of Principle
How and why a Republican Congressional Leader Robert Taft stood on principle against the world – and what we can learn from it.
On Disillusionment As A Way of Life
We live in a world where reports of sexual abuse, everywhere, will now always be in full view. Is that bearable?
Thoughts of a Hypocritical Conservative
Thoughts on the gap between what I practice and what I preach.
Letter to a Young Conservative
“You recently asked me what it is conservatives conserve and more importantly – what it is conservatives have to offer people like you.”
F’n Rubes Who Shovel S***, or Virtuous Manhood
The Tommy Shelbys and Nucky Thompsons of the world are parasites on the real men who make the world go round.
I Miss Prayer
It is completely banal in its utter ordinariness, and it is vital for precisely that reason. Prayer provides us with value and meaning in a desperate age.
Starcraft’s American Frontier in the Cosmos
A popular computer game asks a troubling question: Is space our salvation – or a cruel mirage?
Tuna Pizza, the Spice of Social Media
Symposium: Hmm. I like tuna. I like pizza. I’m already experimenting – so why not?
Kevin Williamson’s Smallest World
A radical libertarian manifesto that deserves to be taken seriously – and rejected. A Review of Kevin Williamson’s “The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics”
Inheriting Batman
If Batman: The Animated Series was the perfection of a world already created, Batman Beyond represents a fascinating world waiting to be explored.
Fagin, Bigotry, and “Cancel Culture”
Put simply, Fagin is one of the most loathsome and unredeemable creatures I have ever come across in fiction.
Diablo III and the Death of God
In Diablo III, Heaven and its angels reveal themselves to be far more complicated, and far from the conception of good one might think
