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Ideas Still Have Consequences

John M. Howting

I worked on a congressional campaign this year that happened to coincide with my rediscovery of Richard Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences.  A few days after the midterm elections, a coworker...

Chesterton the Activist

John M. Howting

James O’Keefe’s video exposés of ACORN, NPR, and CNN are well known, and his 2016 investigations into various political organizations were cited in that year’s American presidential debates. Less...

The Very Model of a Modern Catholic Statesman?

John M. Howting

British Tory Member of Parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg is gaining a massive following on social media. Young people in the U.K. love him. There is a grassroots digital campaign calling...