Conservatism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Mainlining Nostalgia 

Brad East

Ryan Burge is unignorable. A political scientist known for his “graphs about religion,” Burge is required reading…

Witch Hunt 

Helen Roy

In the musical Wicked, the familiar story of The Wizard of Oz is retold from the perspective…

Gen Zeal

Alan Schmidt

Everyone assures us that we enjoy the blessings of progress: Capitalism has produced great ­material wealth, modern…

Goodbye to the Postwar Consensus

Sean McMeekin

The debates of the past year or two surrounding the Second World War have exposed fault lines…

Will Trump’s Coalition Last? (ft. Joseph Prud’homme)

Mark Bauerlein

In the ​latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Joseph Prud’homme joins…

War Without Limits?

Peter J. Leithart

Does the U.S.-Israel assault on Iran fill the criteria of Christian just war theory? A number of…

The New Anti-Semitism

Jacob Akey

The rise of a new right-coded anti-Semitism might have been dismissed as an ephemeral murmur of the…

A Declaration of American Dignity

Joshua S. Treviño

The State of the Union message to Congress is mandated in the Constitution. But it does not…

Dimes Square: An Oral History (ft. Nick Allen)

Virginia Aabram Germán S. Díaz del Castillo

In this episode, Sovereign House and Reign founder Nick Allen joins Virginia and Germán to discuss Dimes…

The Roots of the Trans Violence Epidemic

Will Thibeau

Jesse Van Rootselaar and Robert Dorgan, two men pretending to be women, killed ten people in separate…

What Virgil Teaches America (ft. Spencer Klavan)

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Spencer A. Klavan joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about…

A Critique of the New Right Misses Its Target

Robert Bellafiore

American conservatism has produced a bewildering number of factions over the years, and especially over the last…

Europe’s Fate Is America’s Business

Joshua S. Treviño

"In a second Trump term,” said former national security advisor John Bolton to the Washington Post almost…

The Limits of Universalism: An Exchange

David Novak Glenn C. Loury

As an American Jew and close friend and colleague of Robert George, it is easy for me…

Might Does Not Always Make Right, or Even Sense

George Weigel

The “Melian Dialogue,” from Thucydides’s classic History of the Peloponnesian War, is the foundational text of the realist…