Peter Wehner

An open letter to the Ford Foundation on inequality.

For many lifelong Republicans, the convention in Cleveland will be a time of serious self-reflection, a difficult and honest reckoning. How on earth did the GOP produce Donald Trump as its nominee?

The fulsome embrace of Donald Trump by many evangelicals is rather problematic, since he embodies a worldview that is incompatible with Christianity.

The Republican Party’s politically lethal embrace of Donald J. Trump is very nearly complete.

Republicans continue to hope that Trump will become a dignified, decorous figure. He won’t, and it’s delusional to believe he will.

C.S. Lewis possessed a rare, prized gift – the ability to make goodness, and the Good Life, seem thrilling, radiant, and enchanting; to convince people that the right ordering of our loves can lead to greater fulfillment and to genuine human flourishing.

In a bleak political year, there comes a shaft of light in the form of an extraordinary new book, The Fractured Republic.

Donald Trump has zero interest in ideas. He has no governing agenda and no attachment to any political philosophy. He merely makes it up as he goes.

Disagreeing with others, even passionately disagreeing with others, without rhetorically vaporizing them is part of what it means to live as citizens in a republic.

The candidacy of Donald J. Trump is not only fracturing the Republican Party, it is breaking up friendships as well.

The American people need to know the real temperament — the man in full — who would be president.

It isn’t simply that Trump isn’t a conservative in the spirit of Goldwater or Reagan; it is that he has been an active opponent of conservatism long ago, recently and to this very day.