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Weekly Opeds by Year
by Christopher Chantrill
Opeds for 2008
Beyond the Blame Game 07/17/08
New Hope for Global Warming Deniers 07/14/08
The Hard Choices Will Wait 07/08/08
Those Mean-spirited Liberals 06/30/08
War and Its Moral Equivalent 06/23/08
The Big "O" 06/12/08
Are Conservatives Dead or Resting? 06/04/08
Remember the Fallen 05/26/08
US Can't Pass English 101 05/24/08
How About Those BritCons? 05/16/08
At the Turn of the Cycle 05/08/08
America, You've Been Had 04/30/08
The Pope's Challenge to Conservatives 04/24/08
A Century of Tax 04/18/08
Looking Round the Corner 04/09/08
Doing Something About the Financial Mess 04/04/08
Let's Ask for Forgiveness 03/27/08
Conservatism in an AQAL Context 03/25/08
The Meltdown on Bush's Watch 03/20/08
We All Make Mistakes 03/14/08
Bill Buckley's Conservative Family 03/07/08
The Home Equity Partnership 03/02/08
Reviewing Obama's "Blueprint for Change" 02/19/08
A Budget Valentine 02/16/08
The Path to Real Change 02/08/08
The Liberals' Mommy Fascism 02/01/08
So's Your Father! 01/25/08
Does Big Government Help Women? 01/16/08
When's It Gonna End? 01/03/08
Opeds for 2007
President Bush, Man of the Year 12/29/07
After Clinton or Obama, Woman-centered Conservatism 12/20/07
The Wages of Appeasement 12/12/07
Things You Are Not Allowed to Say 12/05/07
Western Reason vs. Islam 11/30/07
Liberals Are Not All Alike 11/19/07
Let's Steal the Ideas of the Left 11/12/07
S-CHIP and Sacrifice 11/05/07
The End of Socialized Medicine? 10/30/07
Can Conservatives Show That "We Care?" 10/24/07
Not With My Kid You Don't 10/17/07
Let's Talk -- Like Women 10/07/07
Clintons, Baby Bonds, and Dropouts 09/30/07
Dueling Health Plans 09/23/07
That Bush Strategery 09/18/07
Women are Fickle, You Say? 09/09/07
Labor and Leisure 09/03/07
Half of High School Grads Fail Seventh Grade Math 08/26/07
After Rove There’s Work to Be Done 08/26/07
Another Fine Mess 08/12/07
The World Of "They're Just Kids" 08/06/07
The Real Long War 07/29/07
The Rising Tide of Education Subsidy 07/22/07
The Fairness Doctrine Engine Starter 07/15/07
Government is Force, Michael Moore 07/08/07
A Defensive Victory in the Senate
07/01/07
Conservative NextGen
06/24/07
Don't Frighten the Horses on Education Reform
06/17/07
Should Have Known
06/12/07
Hillary Clinton's On Your Own World
06/04/07
Immigration: Mend It Not Rend It 05/27/07
The Legacy of Jerry Falwell 05/21/07
After Blair: Conservatives Mumble About Welfare State Reform 05/13/07
Seizing the Moral High Ground for Reform 05/06/07
Scarred for Life 04/30/07
The Adolescent Society 04/23/07
The Democrats' Shameful Secret 04/15/07
Supreme Court Turns Ratchet of Compulsion 04/09/07
Pity a Poor Democrat 04/01/07
Young Democrats Just Don't Get It 03/25/07
The Sub-prime Blame Game 03/11/07
Democrats Say: We Are Too Patriotic 03/04/07
The Fight Against Sprawl 02/26/07
Winning by Losing 02/20/07
Manufacturing Failure 02/11/07
Renewing the Conservative Narrative 02/04/07
Public Education and The Liberal Way of Conflict 01/28/07
Reality TV Conducts a Seminar on Racism 01/21/07
Enough of the 100 Hours Already 01/14/07
The 100 Hours of Democratic Superstition 01/07/07
The Heedless People Who Didn't Care About Michael Oher 01/02/07
Opeds for 2006
Yet Another Report on the Education Crisis 12/25/06
God Rest Ye Merry Bureaucrats 12/17/06
A March Through the Mind of America 12/11/06
What Did Senator-elect Jim Webb Mean? 12/05/06
It's Not the Spending, Stupid 11/26/06
Milton Friedman, American Hero 11/19/06
The Illusion of a "Neat-and-Tidy" World 11/12/06
The March of Educational Folly 11/05/06
We Support Our GOP Troops. Then What? 10/29/06
Euro-Humanity Upon The Wane 10/22/06
The Synergy of Harry Reid 10/15/06
The Foley Flap and the Honor Wars 10/08/06
Dems 0 for 3 on Terror 10/06/06
Thug Week: The Pity of It All 09/25/06
The Pope Battles Against Dhimmitude 09/18/06
Clinton Spin: To Make You Forget They Are Democrats 09/11/06
The Travails of Labor and Education 09/04/06
It's Not The Dependency Ratio, Stupid 08/27/06
What Gas-Guzzling Dinosaur? 08/23/06
Storm Signals Mean Political Change Ahead 08/15/06
Smell the Whiff of Panic? 08/06/06
Today Seattle Is Conducting Unity Meetings 07/30/06
Wal-Mart Wins a Battle; The War Continues 07/23/06
It's a War, Stupid 07/17/06
Who Are You Calling Dysfunctional? 07/09/06
Liberals and Babies and Trust Cues 07/02/06
Speak Progressive, But Win Conservative Reform 06/27/06
The Democrats' Drive-by Politics for 2006 06/18/06
Is It Bush We Are Testing to Destruction? 06/11/06
A Case of the Economic Shivers 06/04/06
First You Need An Army 05/28/06
Hollywood Doesn't Get It 05/21/06
"You Must Suggest an Alternative" 05/14/06
Why Should Freud Matter? 05/07/06
Democrats Look for a Big Idea 05/07/06
Gaseous Politics and Shame 04/30/06
3 Dollar Gas. An Opportunity 04/23/06
In Old Europe The Real Problem is Fear 04/16/06
$10,000 Checks Won't End the Plague of Truculence 04/10/06
Eco-Sacrifice is Closer Than You Think 04/02/06
Competence vs. Manliness 03/26/06
This Spring Do It for the Children 03/19/06
Is Senator Schumer With Us or Against Us? 03/12/06
Don't Repeal the 22nd Amendment 03/05/06
Dems Want Wal-Mart to Tithe on Healthcare 02/26/06
The Cultural Colonialism of the Left 02/19/06
Torino: Europe's Last Hurrah? 02/12/06
Who Was Betty Friedan? 02/05/06
Thank You Mr. President 01/29/06
Minimum Wage Hits $9.50 in Santa Fe 01/22/06
Strictly Ballroom At Senate Dance Hall 01/15/06
Supreme Court Hearings: Law vs. Rights 01/08/06
Americans and Literacy 01/01/06
Opeds for 2005
Liberal Privacy vs. Conservative Transparency 12/25/05
Iraq Election: Left World, Our World 12/18/05
David Cameron Breathes Life Into Britain's Conservatives 12/11/05
Stand Up for Wal-Mart 12/04/05
The Year of the Looter 11/27/05
What is our Elevator Story? 11/20/05
Beating the Bureaucrats in Education 11/14/05
Rioters Burn French Social Model 11/06/05
President Bush and the Mandate of Heaven 10/31/05
Democrats and "The Politics of Polarization" 10/24/05
Who Lost Delphi? 10/18/05
Changing The Supreme Court: The Real Problem 10/09/05
Big Ed Fights Back Against For-Profit Colleges 10/02/05
I Gotta Right to My Illusions 09/25/05
The Power of the Liberal Taboos 09/18/05
Disaster: When You Want Solutions 09/11/05
The Lesson of New Orleans 09/04/05
Filling the Education Vacuum 08/28/05
It's Official: Left-Islamist Alliance Against the West 08/21/05
The Trouble with Unions 08/14/05
Prince William and the Two Nations 08/07/05
Liberal Prof Gets Conservative about Supreme Court 07/31/05
After the London Bombings: What We Can Do 07/24/05
What Muslims Must Do After 7/7 07/17/05
Back to Business as Usual 07/12/05
The Supreme Court and Little Lord Fauntleroy 07/03/05
A Tactical Play on Social Security 06/27/05
Our Post-patriotic Elite 06/20/05
Fathers Keep Society Safe 06/16/05
Euro-Paradise Lost 06/06/05
A Very American Hero 05/30/05
How Much Ruthlessness is Enough? 05/24/05
After the Battle: Don't Raise Taxes 05/16/05
Blair Wins; Third Way Loses 05/12/05
A Whiff of Panic 05/02/05
The Soros Noise Machine 04/27/05
Andrea Dworkin and the Pity of Feminism 04/19/05
Advice for the Conclave 04/11/05
What Conservative Crack-up? 04/04/05
Stop Whining Start Thinking 03/29/05
Beyond the Judicial Filibuster 03/25/05
Perfect Storm in Atlanta 03/19/05
Trust Us, We Care 03/16/05
The Race To Unimportance 03/10/05
Social Security Grand Strategy 03/01/05
Loosey-goosey Hits the Wall 02/27/05
Ward Churchill is Right 02/16/05
Conservatives and the Creative Impulse: Part II 02/15/05
Conservatives and the Creative Impulse: Part I 02/11/05
Getting Past Freud 02/07/05
Driving Miss Hillary 02/01/05
Iraq Election: A Teachable Moment? 01/30/05
Social Security for the Sixties Generation? 01/23/05
Republicans are Regular Guys 01/19/05
The Real Charlotte Simmons 01/16/05
The Global Future of Contract and Trust 01/15/05
Liberals, You're Doing Too Much! 01/02/05
Opeds for 2004
The Amazon Public Wish List 12/25/04
To Dare to Do It 12/18/04
Why Americans Are Anti-Intellectual 12/11/04
I Double Dare You! 12/04/04
Losing Ohio 11/27/04
Religion, Taxes, and Programs 11/20/04
Understanding Bush's Power 11/04/04
What's All the Fuss About? 10/23/04
On Derridology 10/16/04
Education for What? 10/09/04
A "New Model School" Opens in London 10/02/04
Government and Failure 09/25/04
Anyone for Tipping Points? 09/18/04
Return to Self-Government 09/11/04
Anger and Politics 09/04/04
The Genius of Self-Government 08/28/04
Don't Get Mad, Send Money 08/21/04
The New Challenge Movement: A Manifesto 08/14/04
The Party of the Middle Class? 08/07/04
It Ain't Gonna be Pretty 07/31/04
Turning On the Sixties 07/24/04
The Birth of "Folliage" 07/17/04
Breaking Liberal Taboos on Education 07/10/04
What the Bleep? It's a Movie! 07/03/04
Taking the Cultural Temperature 06/26/04
Why America is Different 06/19/04
On Reagan's Paradise Drive 06/12/04
Ronald Reagan, RIP 06/05/04
Are the Democrats Crazy? 05/29/04
Another Vote for Homeschooling 05/22/04
To Be or to Do 05/15/04
Power Still Matters 05/08/04
New Hope for Education Sufferers 05/01/04
Climate Science Gets Serious 04/24/04
Conservative Passing Gear 04/17/04
Letter to Howie 04/10/04
Middle Class Self-Government 04/03/04
What Liberals Know That Isn't So 03/27/04
Middle Class Family Values 03/20/04
Us Against the Gangs 03/13/04
Lee Harris: We Want More 03/06/04
Changing the Minds of Judges 02/28/04
Our Unserious Liberals 02/21/04
Fighting Purity on Valentine's Day 02/14/04
Winning the Culture War 02/07/04
The First Lady Is Our Queen 01/31/04
A Liberal View of The SOTU 01/24/04
The Left Returns to Sacrifice 01/17/04
The Big Picture on Immigration 01/10/04
Letter to a Liberal 01/03/04
Opeds for 2003
Parable of the Swim Team 12/28/03
The Children of the Welfare State 12/21/03
Excluding Christianity Won't Work, Liberals 12/14/03
Made for Each Other 12/07/03
Suborning the Scientists 11/30/03
Never Misunderestimate 11/23/03
Action
The incentive that impels a man to act is always some uneasiness...
But to make a man act [he must have]
the expectation that purposeful behavior has the power to remove
or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Chappies
“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.”
—Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison
China and Christianity
At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing
Churches
[In the] higher Christian churches… they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Class War
In England there were always two sharply opposed middle classes, the academic middle class and the commercial middle class. In the nineteenth century, the academic middle class won the battle for power and status... Then came the triumph of Margaret Thatcher... The academics lost their power and prestige and... have been gloomy ever since.
Freeman Dyson, “The Scientist as Rebel”
Conservatism
Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity
Conservatism's Holy Grail
What distinguishes true Conservatism from the rest, and from the Blair project, is the belief in more personal freedom and more market freedom, along with less state intervention... The true Third Way is the Holy Grail of Tory politics today - compassion and community without compulsion.
Minette Marrin, The Daily Telegraph
Conversion
“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh
Democratic Capitalism
Three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets
and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism
Drang nach Osten
There was nothing new about the Frankish drive to the east... [let] us recall that the continuance of their rule depended upon regular, successful, predatory warfare.
Richard Fletcher, The Barbarian Conversion
Education
“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State
Faith & Purpose
“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990
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