Conservatism

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Age of Incomplete Religions

Joshua Mitchell

Beware the copula “and.” Politics and religion. Church and state. What does it mean to bring these…

The Ancestral Meaning of Conservatism

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Graham McAleer joins in…

Self-Creation Only Dehumanizes Us

Joel Looper

Begotten or Made?by oliver o’donovandavenant press, 143 pages, $26.95 Think about it,” my friend said, his voice…

The End of Civilization?

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Tracy Lee Simmons joins…

What Makes Education Conservative?

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Rick Hess joins the…

PaPa Pete’s Patriarchy

Kevin D. Roberts

The following essay is excerpted from the forthcoming book Dawn’s Early Light: Burning Down Washington to Save…

Charlotte’s Web Revisited

Alexander Riley

I am presently rereading E. B. White’s novel Charlotte’s Web with my youngest child, who is eight.…

The Unexpected Vocation

Gerard V. Bradley

The following essay is adapted from a commencement address given at Ave Maria School of Law in…

Our Christian Nation

Josh Hawley

Christopher Dawson was an English historian in the middle of the last century, one of those intellectuals…

Can Christians Attend Gay Weddings?

Carl R. Trueman

To update the famous comment of Leon Trotsky, you may not be interested in the sexual revolution,…

The Peculiar Story of C. S. Lewis and Janie King Moore

Bethel McGrew

Sixty years after the death of C. S. Lewis, his bibliography remains a daunting benchmark for anyone…

The Lessons of Epiphany

Sarah Reardon

. . . were we led all that way forBirth or Death? There was a Birth, certainlyWe…

Food for the Soul

Miranda Devine

This article is part of our 2023 year-end campaign series, featuring reflections from prominent authors on why…

Mark’s Poem of the Passion and My Late Friend Dave

Joshua T. Katz

On October 20, 2023, the Reverend David Keith Louder, a Lutheran pastor, died at the age of…

Testing the Spirits of Jon Fosse’s A Shining

Joshua Hren

A Shiningby jon fossetranslated by damion searlstransit books, 88 pages, $16.95 In her little-known essay “The Spirit…