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Conservatism begins with a simple truth: human beings are flawed, and good societies are fragile. Every generation must learn the same hard lessons: that freedom requires responsibility, that rights require virtue, and that civilizations are hard to build and can collapse faster than anyone expects if the foundations are neglected.

That is why conservatism matters. It is not nostalgia or reaction. It is the recognition that the things which make life good (stable families, honest institutions, moral norms, the rule of law, the dignity of the individual) did not appear on their own. They were built carefully, defended painfully, and can be lost easily.

America is forgetting this. The Left rejects our moral inheritance outright. Much of the Right, in its fury, has abandoned prudence and principle. And the country is paying the price: disorder in our culture, confusion in our values, and a generation that knows only resentment, disdainful of America’s past and yet, paradoxically, envious that those who came before had it better.

Conservatism is the antidote, not because it is perfect, but because it understands the limits of human nature and the importance of the things we did not create: truth, tradition, family, faith, duty, and the eternal moral order that grounds them.

What This Site Is For

ConservativeOpinion.com exists for one purpose: to speak the things that need to be spoken, clearly, calmly, and without fear. Not to score points, not to pander to tribes, and not to indulge the emotional addictions that pass for political engagement today. My aim is to encourage thought, not shouting; to persuade, not to inflame.

I write because this moment demands seriousness, not the pseudo-intellectualism of think-tank jargon and not the empty theatrics of cable news. Seriousness means recognizing that ideas have consequences, that culture shapes character, and that the decay we see all around us is not accidental. It is the predictable result of abandoning the principles that once made this country strong.

The essays I publish here are my attempt to push back against that cultural amnesia and entropy. To explain why certain truths cannot be negotiated, why human nature cannot be reinvented, and why the ideas that built the West still matter even in an age that pretends to be too enlightened for them. This is not nostalgia. It is realism.

I believe a good argument, honestly made, is an act of hope, a way of testifying that civilization is worth the effort. And I believe that moral clarity is still possible in a culture determined to blur every line it once recognized.

In that spirit, let us be clear that the crisis America faces today is not new. What is happening in America has happened to other nations that mistook material comfort for moral health, and which learned to abandon, and even abhor, the very thing that made them what they were. When a society loses its bearings, when its leaders grow corrupt, when its institutions forget their purpose, warning signs appear. History, and Scripture, both record what happens when a people forgets the moral order that made them strong. One passage in particular captures our moment with unnerving precision.

Standing in the Gap

In Ezekiel 22, God lays out a devastating indictment of Israel, a nation whose leaders were corrupt, whose priests blurred the sacred and the profane, whose prophets whitewashed lies, and whose people practiced violence, fraud, and indifference to the poor and vulnerable. It is one of the most haunting chapters in Scripture, not because it describes an ancient civilization, but because it describes modern America with unsettling accuracy. And after cataloging Israel’s failures, God delivers a tragic line: “I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.” The danger was real. The decay was undeniable. What God needed was someone willing to intercede, someone willing to stand between two sides of a collapsing culture and the judgment it was courting.

The patriarch of 20th-century American conservatism, William F. Buckley Jr., gave National Review its famous motto: “Standing athwart history, yelling stop.” It was the right charge for his time. But our moment demands something deeper. I created ConservativeOpinion.com to stand in the gap, intellectually, morally, and spiritually, to bridge the widening chasm in our national life, to call a wounded culture back to its first principles, and, if God allows, to help bring healing to a land that has forgotten the foundations on which it was built.

Thank you for reading. And know that whatever your background or beliefs, wherever you find yourself on the political spectrum or cultural divide, if you value freedom and equality, truth and responsibility, justice and mercy, order and compassion, and above all else righteousness in government and in how we govern ourselves, then I hope you’ll stand with me in the gap.