This strikes me as perceptive from Micah Meadowcroft on the idea of centrism.

David French hasn't said anything new since 2020, so no one should really have to write anything new in response.

Left, French in NYT yesterday. Right, my spring 2021 The American Conservative review of his book 'Divided We Fall.'

I'm old enough to remember when suggesting that this was an escalatory possibly was a 'conspiracy theory' was to repeat a 'Russian talking point.'

1/ As I write in today's Financial Times, it’s conservatives that should be storming the ivory tower.

The perfect storm of moral, intellectual, and economic collapse in American higher education presents an ideal political target and an opportunity for serious, high-impact reform.

The Ivys didn’t becoming non-sectarian because that’s what people demanded. They did so to get money from Andrew Carnegie.

Everyone knows dads love naps, and babies need naps, but I hadn't anticipated how much of being a dad is sending my wife to bed to take a nap.

Lisan Al Gaib

The sleepless nights are worth it.

Thanks to Antonin Scalia and Micah Meadowcroft for hosting me, J.D. Vance, and Kevin Roberts for a discussion on my book, Gateway to Statesmanship!

Link to video in comments.

But I say unto you, love the illiterates in your replies, bless them that quote tweet you, do good to them that misrepresent you, and pray for them which despitefully use you for cheap points, and persecute your mentions…

Happy first Mother’s Day, darling. It’s amazing watching you be Mama.

Happy Mother’s Day.

“Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians as they warred against each other, beginning to write as soon as the war was on foot, with expectation it should prove a great one and most worthy the relation of all that had been before…”

Kevin Zagorski (but colder) Keith Walters 14. Mount Rainier (@TNTAdam)

Perhaps one of the reasons many married fathers have told me they experienced an increase in productivity following the birth of their first child is that in welcoming a newborn your 24 hour day is segmented into intervals—a fresh habit of concentration might form. Or so I hope.

Like flies to honey, and smoke to the eyes, so are midwits to tweets against St. Rawls.

An interesting thing about this debate is that only a supernaturalist position allows for the possibility that a specific soul could be embodied under myriad different circumstances, but usually it's materialists insisting on the contingency of birth.
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Insist you are not a relativist all you like, but don’t then turn and make every argument about right and wrong into a sermonette on the “right” and “left.”