Conservatism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The New Divide in American Politics
In the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville noticed something about American politics that astonished him: A divide between…
The Dark Secret of Saint Mary’s College
I was recently present for a troubling exchange between two professors at my university, St. Mary’s College…
We Renounce the Old World
What They Saw in Americajames l. nolan, jr.cambridge university press, 2016, 299 pages I was twenty and…
Reince Priebus and the GOP’s Moral Disaster
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference was stimulating. Some writers took the opportunity to chart the decline…
Bullets for Babies
Fill in the blank: No new law will ever stop a determined person from getting a(n) _______.…
The Impossibility of “Alt-Right Christianity”
I am not anti-Christian. I’m a Lutheran,” says Hunter Wallace, an alt-right blogger cited in Matthew Rose’s…
The Romney Disease
The pretty, decent Republicans lose. The people who look and act the way we hope for our…
Sex, Scandal, and Politics
Decades ago, liberal young people would say, “Let it all hang out.” The innately conservative Peter Berger…
Bluegrass Preaching
A few years ago, I wrote a piece for First Things titled “The Dominican Option”—a response to…
The (Minority) Party of the Bosses
Both of our parties are acting crazy. The Republicans insist on economic policies that are not favored…
Christian Freedom
Earlier this year, when the British MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told an incredulous TV presenter that he objects…
Baskin-Robbins Bushism
We are trapped in a terrible loop. The arrogance, insularity, and solidarity of the elites empowers charlatans…
Home, Not Freedom
I’m a proponent of academic freedom. But what we need today is a home and an inheritance,…
Abraham Lincoln, Matchmaker
What if Abraham Lincoln had sent a young socialite to meet an injured soldier, without telling her…
Learning from Reagan on Healthcare
Henry Olsen’s brilliant, revisionist intellectual biography of Ronald Reagan should transform how we think of our fortieth…
