In a nutshell, Olson contends that Ronald Reagan, hero of American Conservatives, in actuality held views counter to the limited-government, strict-constitutionalist creed that had risen out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater’s defeat in 1964 to dominate Republican Party politics in the seventies and eighties.
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For we dwindling few who still consider a life without books no life at all, the inner debate about what to read on a trip remains a serious matter.
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The big question posed by the Alexandria shooting is no longer how far they will go to impose their will on people once regarded as the opposition but now seen as enemies, but, instead, how often such violence will happen.
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Recently, Roger Scruton, commenting in passing on the Lord of the Rings, called it “second-rate.”
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Scruton’s theology posits that Christ becomes man and dies to reconcile us not to God but to death.
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However, when I finally decided to sit through Rebel Without a Cause, I discovered, much to my surprise, an oddly conservative statement.
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For me, Mike Bartlett’s play “Charles III” sinks of its own cleverness and drowns in a flood of clichés.
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An appearance, or a “fashion,” ought to ideally have something to do with reality, but plain experience tells us that very often the ideal does not obtain; hence, good sense advises men to look beyond what they see.
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I contend with absolute conviction that the world would be a better place if Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, and every Commando of the British Invasion had never lived.
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The last time I checked, Christians worshipped the one true God: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. . . . Seems that doctrine is getting lost in the flood of good will, which is, pardon the cliché, tragic.
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