By Vikram Srinivasan
For all the controversy over University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow’s decision to feature in a pro-life ad aired during the Super Bowl, there was at least one positive outcome.
It made the radically pro-choice left look indisputably silly. The hyperbolic nature of the episode revealed the deep frustration of the pro-choice lobby at the direction of the nation’s abortion debate.
What was noteworthy about the ad, which was made by conservative group Focus on the Family and showed Tebow playfully tackling his mother as she spoke vaguely about the …

By Vikram Srinivasan
There is something about youth that is uniquely susceptible to hubris.
The phenomenon may help to explain why so many young people have an uncanny affinity both for utopian ideology and for the elitist snobbery, sometimes masquerading as self-anointed intellectualism,which accompanies it. Students today seem increasingly elitist in their political views, as they dismiss the reactions and arguments of those who they deem less educated than they are.
Not only is this supreme self-confidence hysterically unwarranted, it hinders a great deal of actual learning. It dovetails with an obnoxious belief …

By Vikram Srinivasan
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council, and Kenneth Klukowski of the American Civil Rights Union are out with a great editorial in the Wall Street Journal today on some of the major constitutional questions hanging over the health care legislation that just passed the Senate.  The key take-away is that the legislation breaches traditional balances between state power and individual liberty in ways never seen before:
America’s founders intended the federal government to have limited powers and that the states have an independent sovereign …

By Vikram Srinivasan
The Politico has a solid article out today on the political stakes of health care reform. Democrats seek nothing less than a fundamental reorientation of the citizen-state relationship, taking us towards an increasingly expansive role for government, not only in the health care sector, but in the economy as a whole. Americans should be concerned:
The real stakes of health care reform are ideological. They revolve around starkly different bets Democrats and Republicans placed on the success or failure of Barack Obama’s presidency, and the success or failure of …

By Vikram Srinivasan
Just as tents can collapse from being too small, they can also fall apart from being too big.
That’s a lesson the GOP should remember as it confronts the issue of what role moderates should play in rebuilding a “big tent” party. Answering that question will depend heavilys on what we mean by “moderate.”
As a conservative, I’m of the view that there should be a large role in the party for moderates. But only for one variety: the principled kind.
When a political party has shrunken to the small size …