One of the recurring themes of this blog is that populist democracy is an affront to the republicanism of the Framers.  Yeah, I know it’s not as sexy as ranting about the dangers of Calvinism, but it’s something. The problem with political theory, at least compared to the hard sciences, is that we generally lack [...]

Cognitive Dissonance

July 22, 2010 | Comments Off

Gee darn, I guess Michael Sean Winters didn’t care for my post on the KKK and the Progressive movement (which had been posted at The American Catholic). They have a bizarre post about the Klan and Progressivism that reads like cliff notes of a Glenn Beck special. You see, I wrote a post that challenged [...]