Neoconservatism was born out of former Trotskyites that became anti-Communists at the end of the Second World War. After the campus protests and student movements of the late 1960s and early ‘70s, their repulsion to the waving of the Little Red Books and protests at Ivy League schools shifted these New Deal Truman Democrats into the hands of the Republican Party.
Rothbardian libertarianism upholds liberty as an ethical and moral standard, and for this reason it is often criticized for being idealistic and utopian. Addressing this critique, Duncan Whitmore argues that the mere fact that we live in a statist society, in which all our liberties are under siege does not mean the fight for liberty is a lost cause.
[This article is adapted from “Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States.”]
Writes “GS”, in response to recent articles on federal contractors and federal employees:
Onsite observations of civil servants and their contractors I found what I believe to be averages:
25% hard workers and people of integrity like are found everywhere
50% that are average to below average
25% that are useless as in not working at all and visiting with their friends who are doing the same. There are also certain protected categories who know they are protected and act accordingly. Use your imagination here.
Politico reports today:
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers wants answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid reports that President Donald Trump’s administration is gearing up to dismiss high-ranking military officers.
What if two of history’s most infamous ideologies—Nazism and Fascism—shared more in common fundamentally with Communism than we often recognize? Recently, a chairwoman of a German political party controversially claimed that Hitler was a communist. While this assertion is incorrect, much of the criticism it drew focused only on the visible differences between Hitler and Communists, leaving their deeper ideological similarities unexamined.
The philosopher and teacher of rhetoric Richard Weaver is best known today for his book Ideas Have Consequences, which was one of the founding works of post-World War II American conservatism.
In the first few weeks of President Trump’s second term, the Trump administration has unleashed a barrage of executive orders and other actions intended to dizzy his detractors. So far, he has been successful. However, his opposition has taken a unique interest in President Trump’s efforts to streamline government. President Trump has tasked Elon Musk and a team of tech gurus—under the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”)—to perform “audits” of key federal agencies by examining their expenditures and identifying fraudulent or wasteful spending.
