Conservatism

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Yale’s Accidental Tribute to John C. Calhoun

Leah Libresco Sargeant

Late last week, Yale announced that it would remove the name of John C. Calhoun from one…

Love With No Future

David P. Goldman

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungby roger scrutonallen lane, 368 pages,…

First Things, the Live Option

Connor Grubaugh

Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go “all-in” for…

Recalibrating the Culture War in 2016

Darrell Bock

We thought that the culture war was behind us and that we were entering a Brave New…

Losing Control of History

William Doino Jr.

If there is one concept that’s taken a massive hit from Donald Trump’s election, it is the…

Where I Was Wrong Part II: Iraq

Pete Spiliakos

Donald Trump didn’t emerge solely from the passions of his enthusiasts. He emerged also from the wreckage…

Disraeli’s Romanticism, Trump’s Nationalism

R. R. Reno

The rise of Donald Trump has led me to think again about Benjamin Disraeli, one of the…

The Conservative Lawyers versus the Never Trumpers

Hadley Arkes

Just a month ago, in a harbinger of things to come, the conservative side lost in the…

Does the Goldwater Comparison Really Hold Up?

Geoffrey Kabaservice

Donald Trump is the most idiosyncratic Republican Party presidential nominee of the post–World War II era. A…

Echoes of Phyllis Schlafly

Charlotte Allen

When Phyllis Schlafly died on September 5 at age 92 at her home in a St. Louis…

The Ruins of the Pat Buchanan Coalition

Pete Spiliakos

Former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan has argued that his timing was off when he ran for president…

The Washington Post and the Church of Me

George Weigel

My local paper, the Washington Post, is best read for its sports and op-ed pages and its…

Against Optimism

Pete Spiliakos

The two party conventions ended with a Trump speech labeled “dark” and a Clinton speech labeled “optimistic.”…

Rotting-Flesh Reaganism

R. R. Reno

Ted Cruz failed to endorse Donald Trump for president. Snore. The real story from Cruz’s convention fiasco…

Bernie Sanders and the Atomized Republic

Pete Spiliakos

Yuval Levin argues that American politics is being distorted by the toxic nostalgia of Baby Boomers who…