Author Archives: Michael Warren Davis

Welcome to the Hellfire Club

Our elites cavorted with a pedophile, almost certainly aware of what he was up to. This is how revolutions begin.

Academic Freedom is Nonsense

Forget the “free exchange of ideas”: students’ minds need to be formed and universities need to safeguard our cultural heritage.

Make America Good Again

This Fourth of July, remember well that ours is a country founded on the Christian idea of love.

Trump is Our Best Hope for Peace in the Middle East

The only thing standing between us and madmen like John Bolton is his common sense.

Don’t Go to College

Too many young adults emerge from universities with so little. Why not learn a trade instead?

‘Luddite’ Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word

If it means shutting off social media and putting down our phones, then we should all be so fortunate.

On the Passing of Les Murray, Our Greatest Poet

He was a Catholic who loved his native Australian bush and didn’t want the Nobel. RIP.

Roger Scruton for Architecture Czar!

British Conservatives have succumbed to the Left and ousted him. We should bring him on in the fight against Brutalist monstrosities.

The Radicalism of Russell Kirk

In an age characterized by “dreams of avarice,” he’s what the Right needs most.

Smoking Like a Man

Towards a masculine attitude on tobacco that neither allows nor bans everything.

Taking Off the ‘What Would William F. Buckley Do?’ Wristband

He was a decent journalist and for a while a good conservative gatekeeper. Then it all went awry.

The Max Bootification of the American Right

Those who count freedom unstructured by order as their sole virtue will always yield calamity.

The Sorrow and Glory of Holy Week

Having suffered greatly in His absence, may we never take Him for granted again.

All Politics is Religion

Man will have his faith, whether in true Christianity or the cheap substitute of political cults.

Scrapping Economics and Starting Over

Market fundamentalism has been exposed as soulless. Before we forge ahead, we need to realize the scope of what we’ve lost.

Fighting Porn: The Reviving Cause Social Conservatism Needs

It isn’t a last gasp; it’s a new beginning, one that’s rallying a new breed of young traditionalists.

Joe Sobran, Recovered From the Ashes

The conservative great tied himself to a stake and lit a match. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have much to learn from his work.