Eric Swalwell Recognized the Changing State
Editor’s note: Eric Swalwell is John Wildermuth’s nominee for the Fox & Hounds Black Bart Award. This annual award goes to the Californian of the year in the world of politics – decided by Joel Fox, John Wildermuth & Joe Mathews. California politics is never going to be the same again. And because Eric Swalwell […]
F&H Daily’s Fourth Annual Black Bart Award
For the past three years frequent contributors to this page Joe Mathews, John Wildermuth and I have nominated candidates for Californian of the Year in the world of politics. We name the final selection the winner of the Black Bart Award. There are no specific criteria to follow in making the selection. Each author will […]
Mere Conservatism and the California Republican Party
Russell Kirk in The Conservative Mind (1953) argues that Edmund Burke (circa 1790) is the father of modern conservatism. Kirk is correct. Burke was a pro-American-Independence British Whig who stemmed the intellectual tide of the French Revolution. The Conservative Mind is an elegant polemic that brings Burke’s moral-religious politics to the historical crossroads of the […]
More ‘Educators,’ Less Education
I attended California public schools, kindergarten through college, starting in the late 1960s through the mid 1980s. While I don’t claim to have received a brilliant education, I did receive a solid liberal arts education. This is especially true when my public education is compared with today’s public education. School decorum was more formal and […]