Author Archives: Daniel McCarthy

No Car, No TV: The Kids Are All Russell Kirk

The author of The Conservative Mind once described the automobile as “a …

Alan Jacobs Returns

After a brief sabbatical from blogging and getting a few book projects …

RIP Howard Phillips, Constitution Party Founder

Longtime conservative activist Howard Phillips died Saturday. As Ralph Z. Hallow notes …

Politics and Property: Can We Do Without Either?

David Gordon asks an important question about my critique of property-based libertarianism: …

Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity—the Video

Here’s the press conference at which Daniel McAdams introduced Ron Paul’s new …

Race or War—Which Caused the ’60s Realignment?

Segregation wasn’t the only thing that made the South go Republican.

John McCain’s Counterprogramming

While Ron Paul was announcing the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and …

Ron Paul’s New Foreign-Policy Website: RonPaulInstitute.org

Ron Paul launched his new foreign-policy educational effort today with this website …

The Mark Sanford Saga Gets Weirder

If you’ve read Michael Brendan Dougherty’s profile of Mark Sanford—or, for that …

Punks for Thatcher

“Saturday Night Live” takes the mickey (below), but there were a few …

Long-Term Unemployment Is a Long-Term National Problem

Matthew Yglesias points to Rand Ghayad’s research showing—unsurprisingly—that employers are reluctant to …

Liberty Isn’t Just Property—So What Is It?

Ownership and government are two kinds of power, and each needs checks.

How a Federal Republic Becomes an Ideological Empire

George Carey a few years ago noted a some reasons why America’s …

Why Republicans Should Embrace Change

Nate Cohn lays out the dismal future for the Republican Party if …

Ron Paul Launches a Foreign-Policy Institute

The former Texas congressman gave voice to a noninterventionist foreign policy when …

How the Kermit Gosnell Story Is Like Trayvon Martin’s

The grisly details make for compelling news, but this story is about abortion, and how it emblemizes pro-life arguments.

What the GOP Can Learn From Thatcher’s Party’s Last Success

I may have helped popularize the now well-known fact that Republicans have …

Richard Nixon Evolves

John B. Judis, in Grand Illusion: Critics and Champions of the American …

The Churches of Thatcher

The late prime minister was marked by her early Methodism, even after …

The Best Thing About “Argo”

…were the vintage sports jackets Ben Affleck got to wear. The film …

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