Sublime

Whereas Buchanan’s views were informed by a sense of earnestness, humility, and respect, Rothbard’s every breath was laden with irreverence for authority. Buchanan was an Irish Catholic who regarded 1959’s liberalizing Vatican II Council as a surrender of the forces of good (meaning orthodoxy) to those of decadent modernism. Rothbard, on the other

The death of objectivity “relieves me of the obligation to be right.” It “demands only that I be interesting.” —STANLEY FISH

Sadopopulism replaces the American Dream with that American nightmare. It directs the attention of a fragile middle class toward those who are doing still worse, rather than toward those who collect the wealth and decline to be taxed on it.

valorizing the weak outsider that leftists get a front-row seat for the innovations of tomorrow.

The only poll that I’ve seen about journalists is that they are basically narcissistic and left of center. Look, what people call “left of center” doesn’t mean anything—it means they’re conventional liberals, and conventional liberals are very state-oriented, and usually dedicated to private power.

What makes social and political arguments conservative as opposed to orthodox is that the critique of liberal or progressive arguments takes place on the enlightened grounds of the search for human happiness based on the use of reason.