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On Conservatism

Posted on 2021-07-282021-07-30 by greg nagan

I said there was some stuff I’d been thinking about while on vacation that I wanted to share. So here we go. Our sixth grade social studies teacher was a kind and portly old woman whose dentures often fell out when she got excited. She got excited a lot, poor thing. That’s what made her…

The Joy of Conservatism

Posted on 2020-11-232020-11-23 by greg nagan

While running for president in 2000, George W. Bush spoke frequently of a “compassionate conservatism” that he himself characterized (years later) like this: The philosophy took hold in my first race for governor. I remember my announcement tour and subsequent speeches saying, “It is conservative to insist that we measure students in public schools; it is compassionate…

Deep Thought

Posted on 2020-10-252020-10-25 by greg nagan

There’s a particular kind of “think piece” in American journalism that blossoms in the run-up to every federal election. As a young man I thought they were the misguided efforts of well-intentioned people; as a less young man I now realize they’re just liberals trying to trick conservatives into supporting liberal ideas and candidates. This…