How should citizens respond when rhetoric crosses the line? Dakota Rudesill offers his perspective.

It's here! David French joins us to discuss various topics, including: His old debate with Sohrab Ahmari and David French Derangement Syndrome. (Poor Thomas D. Howes didn't have his mic, so he sounds like he's calling in from a gas station) John A. Daly

Yes. The first half of the 20th Century was famously an absolute banger.

Thank you to Law & Liberty for publishing my essay on the New Right's appeals to Carl Schmitt and his friend-enemy distinction.

Thank you to Law & Liberty for publishing my essay on the New Right's appeals to Carl Schmitt and his friend-enemy distinction.

thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/10/99182/ Communal consent is usually necessary to authorize civil leaders to make governmental decisions for the whole community, and that this is a demand of general justice on the part of the purported authorities themselves.

"Let’s not fool ourselves...about why the non-academic New Right appeals to Schmitt. It’s not about theoretical illumination. In popular politics, people push Carl Schmitt because he helps them rationalize their tribal politics."

Great piece. “As ideologues come to care less and less about the Constitution, and more and more about winning a total war for America’s future, we risk losing what made America great in the first place: its constitutional-republican order, an order that requires a basic respect

More family-friendly conferences, please!

John B. Carpenter warned about the "Woke Right" nearly one year ago. Link below.

thevitalcenter.com/fall-2024/righ…

In case you missed it.

Check it out!

Please check it out, in case you missed it.

Schmitt is an enemy to the vital center.

In politics, fads fade out, hope dwindles, fatigue sets in. Social entrepreneurs who care about the common good must always be ready, building a foundation so that when the opportunity comes for reform and renewal, they are ready to lead it.