Before I start on the potentially tangential point of whether these immigrants are in some sense potential “Republican voters,” I should note in fairness that my colleague, Leon Wolf, does argue later in the post for enforcement of the law: All of that said, I am still a law and order guy. And, I support [...]
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A strange turn for the Right.
December 30th, 2010 
admin From the Archives: Here I reprint an old essay that, it seems to me, has aged pretty well. I have revised it many times and offer now an update for those EM readers who are interested. +++++++++++++++++ Some years ago, while wandering the grand and fantastic landscape of the Internet, I stumbled upon by chance [...]
Engaging the Issue
December 29th, 2010 admin Over the course of the day, Paul Cella and I have been kicking the immigration can around at RedState. What follows is a replication of that debate to its current point. Part the First: In Case You Thought This was Going Away – Leon Tens of thousands of protestors lined the streets of Los Angeles, [...]
The Silent Watchman
December 29th, 2010 admin “Son of Man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me: When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save [...]
The New Politics of Roe
December 29th, 2010 admin The general consensus is that South Dakota’s bipartisan abortion ban, which was passed through the legislature last week, was designed to test the current Supreme Court’s commitment to Roe v. Wade. It appears that, for the nonce, it is actually testing an entirely different class of politicos: namely, 2008 GOP Presidential candidates. [A] quick survey [...]
The defect of right-Liberalism.
December 29th, 2010 admin There is in that school of thought from which President Bush has drawn his principle of foreign policy a peculiarly debilitating problem that merits our attention. It is superficially a problem of priority, but at base it is a blunder of the intellect. It will be asked that I name the school of thought in [...]
Politics and the Myth of a Pre-Social Human Nature
December 29th, 2010 admin The present moment is one beset by seemingly interminable and intractable (as indeed they must be, given the presuppositions of the warring parties) disputes concerning the relevance of human nature to political, even geopolitical, questions. That may seem, to some, a prima facie absurd and portentious declaration, but there it is. Its truth is manifest [...]
What to do (a beginning).
December 29th, 2010 admin The Cartoon Jihad has provoked some valuable discussion, but we are still very far from where we need to be. We are still very far from the kind of discussion that a free republican people, jealous of its liberty, must undertake. We are still very far from satisfactorily discharging our duty of self-government. The Boston [...]
