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J.D. Vance’s economic populist streak, combined with his pro-life views and support for religious liberty, could offer an alternative to the two major political parties.
The trend is to heap vituperation on historical or classical liberalism. A leading critic of liberalism, Patrick Deneen, writes in Regime Change that Western…
The twenty-first century has been hard on the Enlightenment. Lauded as a foundational moment in the story of human progress—the font from which all civilized life supposedly sprang—its position and its claim for the triumphant power of human reason no longer seem so secure. The Enlightenment’s most prominent political offspring, communism and liberalism, lay either apparently dead or seemingly in terminal decline, while its technological children, the fruits of the fossil-fuel driven industrial
“Regime Change” fits into a long tradition of magical thinking, from Anton Mesmer to Theodore Roosevelt and beyond.
A rising generation can still look to Russell Kirk’s classic for real inspiration.