Conservatism
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Conservative Con Artistry
A breach has opened between the Republican party’s business interests and the party’s activists. It has always…
Opportunity and Incentives
President Obama’s recent actions to effectively exempt millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation and to issue them…
Conservative Populism and the Cory Gardner Problem
A funny thing happened when Cory Gardner, the senator-elect from Colorado, went on Fox News Sunday: He…
Social Liberal Hubris
Mark Udall’s senatorial defeat might have been the sweetest victory for social conservatism on Tuesday. He organized…
What the Midterms Mean for Social Conservatives
I’m never more of a partisan than on election night. All my misgivings about the Republican Party…
The Dominican Option
There’s been a long conversation in America about the degree to which Catholic Christianity is compatible with…
A Pessimistic Case for Hope
Ten years ago this fall, it seemed for a moment like social conservatives might be ascendant in…
Tocqueville in Arabia
Over the course of the last three hundred years, in broad swaths of the globe where Anglo-American…
Welcome Back, Ted
This Thursday, for the first time since he argued before the Supreme Court in 2013 for a…
Ronald Reagan: Cold Warrior and Nuclear Abolitionist
In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy with greater access to primary-source documents,…
Give The People Some Respect
Mitt Romney is a good guy. He just doesn’t want you to know it. He tithes. He…
The Making of a Misleading Metaphor
The sturdiest storyline in the coverage of the canonization of two popes last Sunday was a narrative…
Beat the Establishment
The divorce papers of Democratic lobbyist super couple Tony and Heather Podesta show that for a certain…
Isolated in the Information Age
Young voters are more politically up-for-grabs than one would think. They are more likely to favor same-sex…
Forgetting Middle America
Speaking at a party retreat, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told his colleagues that the party had…