Why They Hate Her
Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left.
Posted: Sunday, September 14, 2008
The single most important narrative holding the left together in today's politics and culture is the one offered--often with little or no dissent--by adversarial feminism.  The simple fact that Sarah Palin is a pro-life married mother of five with a thriving political career was--before anything else about her was known--enough for the left and its outliers to target her for destruction.  [Full Story]

The Politics of a Failed Presidency
How John McCain and the Republican party should deal with the Bush record.
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2008
If Republicans are to accomplish the unusual feat of winning a third consecutive presidential election in the context of an unpopular administration of their own party, they will have to develop a narrative that takes into account the failed presidency in their midst while at the same time making a plausible case for a new Republican presidency and continued Republican strength in Congress.  [Full Story]

The Social Conservative Primary
Why Iowa matters.
Posted: Thursday, December 27, 2007
Winning Iowa is important. But riveting as the horse race will be on January 3, the second most important thing is what lessons the winner and his top pursuer take from Iowa into New Hampshire and the rest of the states that so quickly follow.  [Full Story]

Alive and Kicking
Reports of the demise of social conservatism are greatly exaggerated.
Posted: Thursday, December 20, 2007
Social conservatism is the only mass-based political persuasion that fully believes in the core ideas of the American founding. Social conservatism isn't going away. It continues to be the essential building block of Republican presidential majorities.  [Full Story]

What Falwell Wrought
Just the biggest voter realignment in modern history.
Posted: Thursday, May 24, 2007
To gauge the impact of Jerry Falwell it is helpful to review the voting behavior of conservative white Protestants in the presidential elections between 1976 and 1984, the years when Falwell's political influence emerged from nowhere and reached its peak.   [Full Story]