Brooks and the “Magic” of Decentralization
This is the completely predictable conclusion to Brooks’ column on reform conservatism: I’d say the reform conservatives are still a little too Jeffersonian [bold mine-DL]. They have a bit too much...
View ArticleCantor and Reform Conservatism
One of the least persuasive interpretations of Cantor’s loss is that it represents a major setback for “reform conservatism.” Ezra Klein endorses this view: Of late, there’s been a lot of talk about...
View ArticleReform Conservatives and Foreign Policy
Ed Kilgore gives some advice to reform conservatives: Perhaps the most troubling thing to me about Room To Grow is that it avoided immigration, as well as foreign and defense policy. These are critical...
View ArticleReform Conservatives and Foreign Policy: The Case of Rubio
Jim Antle highlights the work of Senators Lee and Paul in promoting new policy ideas inside the GOP. He also lumps in Rubio with the other two: You don’t have to agree with all of the aforementioned...
View ArticleReform Conservatives and Foreign Policy (II)
Ross Douthat responds to criticisms that reform conservatives are omitting foreign policy from their agenda: I suppose I must fall under the “exceptions” Larison cites, but I’m uncertain who’s...
View ArticleThe Week’s Most Interesting Reads
The war for the “Greater Middle East.” Andrew Bacevich summarizes the reasons for America’s entanglements in the affairs of the region over the last thirty years. Oakeshott’s idealism. John Gray...
View ArticleA “Reform Conservative” Foreign Policy Without Any Reform
Colin Dueck and Roger Zakheim offer an outline of “reform conservative” foreign policy that doesn’t seem to involve any discernible reforms. It is very short on new ideas and long on very familiar,...
View ArticleReform Conservatives and Foreign Policy (III)
Last year Justin Logan identified foreign policy as reform conservatism’s “blind spot,” and the first attempt to define a specifically “reform conservative” foreign policy just confirms how true that...
View ArticleA “Reform Conservative” Foreign Policy Without Any Reform (II)
Colin Dueck and Roger Zakheim take another stab at “reform conservative” foreign policy. They make this thoroughly unhelpful observation: Now, when liberals discuss what they view as necessary reforms...
View ArticleBrooks and the “Magic” of Decentralization
This is the completely predictable conclusion to Brooks’ column on reform conservatism: I’d say the reform conservatives are still a little too Jeffersonian [bold mine-DL]. They have a bit too much...
View ArticleCantor and Reform Conservatism
One of the least persuasive interpretations of Cantor’s loss is that it represents a major setback for “reform conservatism.” Ezra Klein endorses this view: Of late, there’s been a lot of talk about...
View ArticleReform Conservatives and Foreign Policy
Ed Kilgore gives some advice to reform conservatives: Perhaps the most troubling thing to me about Room To Grow is that it avoided immigration, as well as foreign and defense policy. These are critical...
View ArticleReform Conservatives and Foreign Policy: The Case of Rubio
Jim Antle highlights the work of Senators Lee and Paul in promoting new policy ideas inside the GOP. He also lumps in Rubio with the other two: You don’t have to agree with all of the aforementioned...
View ArticleReform Conservatives and Foreign Policy (II)
Ross Douthat responds to criticisms that reform conservatives are omitting foreign policy from their agenda: I suppose I must fall under the “exceptions” Larison cites, but I’m uncertain who’s...
View ArticleThe Week’s Most Interesting Reads
The war for the “Greater Middle East.” Andrew Bacevich summarizes the reasons for America’s entanglements in the affairs of the region over the last thirty years. Oakeshott’s idealism. John Gray...
View ArticleA “Reform Conservative” Foreign Policy Without Any Reform
Colin Dueck and Roger Zakheim offer an outline of “reform conservative” foreign policy that doesn’t seem to involve any discernible reforms. It is very short on new ideas and long on very familiar,...
View ArticleReform Conservatives and Foreign Policy (III)
Last year Justin Logan identified foreign policy as reform conservatism’s “blind spot,” and the first attempt to define a specifically “reform conservative” foreign policy just confirms how true that...
View ArticleA “Reform Conservative” Foreign Policy Without Any Reform (II)
Colin Dueck and Roger Zakheim take another stab at “reform conservative” foreign policy. They make this thoroughly unhelpful observation: Now, when liberals discuss what they view as necessary reforms...
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