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 […]
The Conservative Fear Of Nationalism
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 […]