- 1. I think most liberals are probably familiar with one part of what has become known as Wilhoit’s Law – that the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control. This is how composer Frank Wilhoit put it in 2018: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...Feb 4, 2026 14:09
- 2. I think liberals are probably less familiar with another part of Wilhoit’s “law” – that these goals are so indefensible in a country founded on liberty and equality that it is necessary for conservatives to cover them up with lies.
- 3. “As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly,” Wilhoit wrote, “it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny.”
- 4. On the right, US citizenship has always been a matter of white power. The overarching objective of conservatism since the founding has been maintenance of a social order in which rich white men are on top.
