Anglo-American conservatism is a rich intellectual inheritance. It is a tradition that has been cultivated and stewarded by towering intellects — John Adams, Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, Michael Oakeshott, and dozens of others. The list of great conservative minds includes…
It was a remarkable week, destined for the history books on so many levels: The Republican National Convention of 2024. Six months earlier, the Democrats were salivating. They truly had mastered the “science” of political science. Judges in Maine and…
“Western Civilization, and the United States in particular, is at risk. I say this because this is exactly what happened to my country 45 years ago” began Reza Pahlavi in his speech to the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon). He would…
Vivek Ramaswamy is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and dynamic figures to have emerged from the Right over the past few years. “Ramaswamy” is not a surname that one would usually expect to find on the hard right wing…
American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again By Yuval Levin (Basic Books, 352 pages, $25) An important conservative intellectual was here teaching an attentive post-graduate audience about the contributions of a dozen intellectual leaders of the early…
What a difference a century makes. One hundred years ago, America was entering into its quadrennial presidential election campaign under circumstances quite different from those facing us today. Republican incumbent President Calvin Coolidge was facing Democratic challenger John W. Davis….
Nayib Bukele has become something of a darling for American right-wingers, and not without good reason. The youthful, eloquent 42-year-old president of El Salvador has made a name for himself in his stunningly successful war against his nation’s murderous cartels…
David Brooks is the regular alternative voice discussing politics and public affairs for the government-supported Public Broadcasting Service’s News Hour. He is a regular columnist for the New York Times, a former editor for the Weekly Standard (from its inception), and…
The politician is an animal that believes that voters deposit the envelope in the ballot box with the evolution of the national gross domestic product in mind. They don’t. First of all, most voters vote with their bellies, not their…
