Conservatism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The King and the Swarm

Mary Harrington

The printing press did not just change how people shared information. It changed the normative patterns of…

A Primer on Neo-Reaction

Colin Redemer

Xenosystemsby nick landpassage, 338 pages, $39.95 I read Nick Land’s Xenosystems on a sunny afternoon in California…

Is America a Creedal Nation?

David P. Goldman

All civilizations, like all individuals, have flaws. The Christian civilization of Church and empire had flaws. America,…

L.A. and Elon

The Editors

The editors discuss the immigration riots in Los Angeles, and Donald Trump’s feud with Gavin Newsom. Then…

Glenn Greenwald Is Not a Victim

Bethel McGrew

In a scene from the 1961 British neo-noir film Victim, four gay men are having a conversation…

Saving Christian Europe

Éric Zemmour

Christianity made Europe,” Georges Bernanos writes in The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon. “Christianity is dead. Europe…

Fukuyama Gets Strauss Wrong

R. R. Reno

Francis Fukuyama lacks self-knowledge. On June 4, he republished excerpts from Leo Strauss’s 1941 lecture on “German…

A Catholic Fix for American Higher Education?

George Weigel

Why are so many American colleges and universities in crisis? Drew Gilpin Faust, an accomplished Civil War…

The Hour for a New Humanism | 2025 D.C. Lecture

Carl R. Trueman

In this episode, First Things brings you the recording of the 2025 D.C. Lecture presented by Carl Trueman.…

Getting Foreign Aid Right

George Weigel

Rhetorical restraint is not prominent in Washington these days. Given the volatile personalities involved and the escalatory…

How to Commemorate 1776

Walter A. McDougall

Next year is America’s 250th anniversary, and President Trump has promised us a “spectacular birthday party.” The…

The Persistence of Ideology

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Daniel J. Mahoney joins…

Battle for Young Minds 

Liel Leibovitz

If you happened to tune in to America’s most popular podcasts these last few months, you might’ve…

Women Without Men!

R. R. Reno

In this episode, Darel E. Paul joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his…

The Love Society and Its Enemies

R. R. Reno

Written by Karl Popper after he fled Austria in the late 1930s, The Open Society and Its…