"The untested assumption required us to suppose that such an electorate, or at least a majority of its members, would be capable of exercising the...
The Gamble of Mass Democracy
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William Rusher
Media and Liberal Realignment
"The truth … is that American liberals lost effective control of the Johnson administration and its agenda in or about 1966, when Johnson's Great...
Political Conversation vs. Reality
"The talk of politicians when they let their hair down bears very little resemblance to dinner-table chatter in a well-run vicarage, and Mr. Nixon,...
Leadership and Conviction
"The struggle for survival must not be led, on behalf of the American society, by some doubt-ridden egghead exquisitely poised between Yea and Nay....
NYT Op-Ed Liberalism
"The Op-Ed page of the New York Times … is allegedly intended to afford space for the expression of a large variety of views on public questions,...
Belief as National Imperative
"The one sin for which nature exacts the supreme penalty of national extinction is a failure on the part of the members of a society to believe [in]...
Renewal of National Will
"The masters of the Kremlin are not ten feet tall, and there is no objective reason why they must prevail. America's resources are as vast as...
Goldwater’s 1964 Campaign Impact
"The importance of the 1964 campaign as a recruiting device … must not be overlooked. Most presidential campaigns are mechanical affairs, their...
Nixon’s Two-Sidedness
"The discussion lasted an astonishing three hours and ended … only because both Buckley and I had other appointments. I remember being particularly...
Principle of Defensible Arguments
"The competent arguer won't adopt a position in the first place unless he is absolutely sure it is defensible." Source: How to Win Arguments (1981)...
Arguments from Consequence vs. Analogy
"The argument from consequences … tends on the whole to be somewhat weaker than the argument from analogy … precisely because it lacks the...
Soviet System’s Unsustainability
"Soviet society is simply too incongruent with the realities of human nature and the laws of economics to survive indefinitely … As the noose of...