Is it time for conservatives to give up our fight against Big Government? ...more

January 5, 2009

Regarding Michael Gerson's column "The Whale Oil Economy" (Other Views, July18): ...more

July 22, 2008

Aid Level Is Adequate Regarding "Expand Food Stamps Aid" (Other Views, July 14): ...more

July 19, 2008

In the 1920s and '30s, the American left was riven by multiple factions furiously representing different flavors of socialism, each accusing the others of revisionism and deviationism. Leftists comforted themselves with the thought that "you can't split rotten wood." ...more

November 25, 2007

In an op-ed article, "The War For GOP's Soul" (Other Views, Nov. 3), Michael Gerson argued that "the Republican Party is in the midst of an ideological identity crisis." Perhaps because of his experiences within the Bush administration, Gerson falsely portrayed the choice as between libertarianism (or "anti-government conservatism") and the "social teachings of the Jewish and Christian traditions," arguing that the former ignores the plight of the most disadvantaged. But that misunderstands the nature of the true conservative's reluctance to rush headlong into large, new government programs. ...more

November 23, 2007