Classical Liberalism and the Future of Freedom
It was Dawkins’ denial of agency that split modern liberalism fully off from classical liberalism, whether he intended that or not.
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Wallace L. Garneau
Wallace L. Garneau is a writer, commentator, and IT professional with over 29 years of experience in manufacturing, logistics, and systems architecture. He is the author of The Way Forward: Lean Leadership and Systems Thinking for Large and Small Businesses (Routledge, 2021) and a leading voice on politics, economics, culture, and Western civilization. His work has appeared in White Rose Magazine, America Out Loud, Global Liberty Media, The Daily Libertarian, and his personal Substack, where his essays reach tens of thousands of readers. His commentary is known for breaking down complex ideas with clarity and depth. With a longtime presence in conservative and classical liberal circles, Garneau’s blog The Dog House was recognized as Rush Limbaugh’s Conservative Website of the Week in the late 1990s. He later founded The Enemy Combatant and The Daily Libertarian, all of which established his reputation for challenging prevailing narratives with intellectual force and moral clarity. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Networks and Telecommunication from the University of Phoenix and an MBA in Lean Manufacturing from the University of Michigan. Professionally, he has served in executive and technical roles for companies such as Root-Lowell Manufacturing, the Tapco Group, IBM, and York Worldwide. A two-branch U.S. military veteran, Garneau served in both the Marine Corps Reserve and the Army. He is also a devoted father, a passionate barbecue pitmaster, and a committed advocate for classical liberalism, individual liberty, and the restoration of civilizational order through reason, courage, and faith.
Fascism, Then and Now
This alliance between capital and state is not free-market capitalism: it is economic fascism.
Read Article »Is Morality Eternal? What Christianity Teaches About Sin
Did the moral order exist before it was recorded, or did it emerge over time? Is the moral law eternal, or does it change in the afterlife? Is the religious leader inside the moral order, or outside of it? Does the moral order ever change on the fly? And finally, how many moral orders are there within each religion?
Read Article »The Original Young Turk
If Cenk Uygur had a shred of decency, he would change his network’s name.
Read Article »Faithful to What?
The political left-right spectrum still stands with totalitarianism on the extreme left, and anarchy on the extreme right. This spectrum only captures one aspect of political philosophy, but it is the most important one as it is the one that distinguishes types of government based on power.
Read Article »J. D. Vance’s Memoir “Communion” is But Paint
I finished the book without feeling like I’d lost a friend.
Read Article »Conservatism Beyond Trump: A Modern Conservative Platform
A political movement cannot govern indefinitely through disruption. A wrecking ball can clear a condemned structure, but it cannot become the foundation of the building that replaces it. Eventually, a movement must decide how it will govern when in power.
Read Article »Dear Mr. Vice President
I wrote you an open letter in July out of concern about the direction you were taking on Israel. I strongly disagreed with you, but I assumed you were acting within what you considered to be good faith. I thought you were getting pulled into a political movement that was becoming increasingly hostile to Israel, and that perhaps you did not fully appreciate from where some of the arguments you were repeating came.
Read Article »ActBlue’s Open Door to China + Qatar
If we are not willing to take election integrity seriously, we should expect hostile foreign powers to take our lack of election integrity very seriously.
Read Article »America’s Founding Ideal and the Islamic Challenge
The United States was founded, as John Adams put it, “not as a Christian nation, but as a nation of Christians,” and a surprising number of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were trained ministers. I like to think of the Constitution as a libertarian document, but classical liberalism is an Enlightenment concept, and the Enlightenment is a direct descendent of the Christian world, where Judeo-Christian morality collided with Greek philosophy.
Read Article »An Open Letter to J. D. Vance
Your friend Charlie Kirk believed Israel needed to make its case to young American conservatives. Now you are treating Israel’s decision to follow that advice as evidence of something sinister.
Read Article »Poetry of Destruction: The Satanic Imagination of Karl Marx
Was Marx actually a Satanist? Some might say he was just a romantic youth, and it is hard to say one way or another with absolute certainty, but whether or not Marx literally worshiped Satan, his imagination was satanic in the older Christian sense: rebellion against God, hatred of the created order, and the promise that man can become his own creator. He certainly saw man the way Satan would, offering something Satan would have known could never actually work while knowing that the attempt to implement it would kill on a scale even smallpox could not match.
Read Article »Reality Pushes Back
That leap works inside an art studio or a poetry reading, but it breaks when applied to the world around us.
Read Article »When Moral Systems Collide
This is how propaganda works when it succeeds. It does not merely persuade. It restructures the categories through which people interpret reality.
Read Article »Sanctuary Cities and the War on ICE: From Holocaust Comparisons to Political Power Plays
There may be nothing more controversial in the United States today than the question of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcing America’s immigration laws. Those laws are pretty straightforward, calling for federal authorities to detain and deport anyone found in the country illegally; but those laws have fallen into disfavor in some circles, causing protests and riots, particularly in Minneapolis.
Read Article »The Question of Intent: Religions vs. Cults
The Bill of Rights is one of the most important foundations of our country, defining things that no government at any level can ever do, even in pursuit of its legitimate powers. The most important amendment in the Bill of Rights is the first, which says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Read Article »America’s First Principles
In the legend of Camelot, the Holy Grail was not discovered by the greatest knight, nor by the most wise, nor even by the most visibly pious. It was not found by those who spoke most eloquently about virtue, nor by those who cloaked themselves in sanctimony.
Read Article »Information Jihad: How Qatar Finances the Muslim Brotherhood’s War on the West
National defense is one of the primary responsibilities of any federal government, but when our founders wrote the Constitution, they were thinking about invading armies more so than invading narratives. The United States is too powerful militarily for any nation to consider invading, so warfare today is asymmetrical.
Read Article »Jihad: The Hunt That Never Ended
In the year 630, Prince Ukaydir was celebrating his 35th birthday when he rode out from Dumat al-Jandal for an early-morning hunt, carrying only a light spear and bow. A Christian Arab prince and ally of Byzantium, he led his brother and his most trusted retainers, men who had hunted with him since childhood.
Read Article »An Open Letter to Matt Walsh
Courage, however, when fueled by anger, can turn inward, and anger, even when righteous, can cloud judgment.
Read Article »The Theology of Domination
Islam glorifies not submission itself (as I think we assume), but the power to compel submission.
Read Article »Islam: An Inversion of Morality
Islam was not revealed; it was reverse-engineered. It is not the fulfillment of divine truth, but its calculated inversion. Islam is not even a religion so much as a tool for conquest wrapped in the language of faith.
Read Article »Rebirth is the Rule, Collapse the Exception
Will Durant once wrote that civilization lives in the clearing, and there’s always a hungrier tribe still in the bush, waiting to conquer it. Durant warned that no great civilization is ever conquered from without until it first destroys itself from within. The image is compelling, but the conclusion it supports is wrong. Durant helped […]
Read Article »The Politics of Panic
The fight-or-flight response is an extraordinary adaptation. It narrows focus, accelerates decision making, and prepares the body to survive immediate danger. In the presence of a genuine threat it can save a life, but what protects us in moments of crisis becomes destructive when permanent, and a body trapped in fight-or-flight mode eventually begins to break down.
Read Article »The War on Words: Political Labels
The language of politics often obscures these realities, and this extends to the labels we use.
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