Francisco Franco, like every other dictator, is a controversial figure. Some time ago, as he came up in conversation, it occurred to me that I didn’t know much about the man. Charles Haywood’s article, On Franco, soon came to my attention, which I read with great interest. At the end of it, he asked a…
Perhaps one of conservatism’s greatest failures is its tendency to define objectives in terms of what it is against. Instead of furnishing members with a new direction for society, it guides constituents by framing issues in the negative. When “wokeness” became a political issue, mainstream conservatives opted to call themselves the negative: “anti-woke,” instead of…