Conservatism In The United States
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The Right Now June 17, 2022
What is it that conservatives conserve? And why does what they conserve need conserving? Further, from whom or what does the object of conservatives’ concern need to be kept safe? Which people, groups, or impersonal forces would damage or destroy it?...
Not Quite Right May 27, 2022
Glenn Ellmers on “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism” by Matthew Continetti....
Stan Evans: Fusionist Father May 25, 2022
Steven F. Hayward’s wonderful new book gets Stan Evans just right. Stan was a journalist of the top rank, a political activist at the highest level (including access to Ronald Reagan), far-seeing about our declining social order, and a “first-rank th...
Everyman's Bill Buckley May 20, 2022
According to Steven Hayward, M. Stanton Evans was the perfect conservative. He was a journalist of the first rank; a political activist; a thinker and theorist (one of the rare writers who is “both literate and numerate, conversant with physics as we...
Right and Writer May 03, 2022
Steven F. Hayward has published a biography of M. Stanton Evans, a major figure in American conservatism. He was a thinker, a writer, an educator, an activist, and, not least, a journalist. In an age of liberal dominance, he was a media critic who di...
Five Best: Books on Presidential Cabinets March 18, 2022
American DreamerBy John C. Culver and John Hyde (2000)1. Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965)—pioneer agricultural scientist, farm journalist, lifelong student of corn production, progressive thinker and Progressive Party presidential candidate—may have rece...
The Best Political Books of 2020 December 11, 2020
Christopher Caldwell’s “The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties” (Simon and Schuster, 352 pages, $28) appeared in January, before the George Floyd riots or the coronavirus panic, but a careful reader of this penetrating study of postwar Ame...
Decadence in the Time of Corona June 12, 2020
Ross Douthat is one of the most interesting members of America’s commentariat. As an (increasingly rare) dissenting conservative voice at the New York Times, he writes on US politics and public life in a consistently provocative, thoughtful and heter...
What Is Conservative American Nationalism? October 21, 2019
Circumstances change; principles do not. America's oldest foreign-policy tradition still finds its home on the right....
