The Godfather of Permanent Things
Russell Kirk stands alongside a pantheon of conservative thinkers and writers from the past century. His The Conservative Mind, now 70 years old, was the magnum opus…
Russell Kirk stands alongside a pantheon of conservative thinkers and writers from the past century. His The Conservative Mind, now 70 years old, was the magnum opus…
The Closing of the American Mind is not conservative, especially not in the sense of preserving the foundational values and beliefs of Western Civilization. Nonetheless, it is…
Yoram Hazony. Conservatism: A Rediscovery. Washington DC: Regnery, 2022. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the past 30 years has abounded with intellectual brouhaha over…
Michael Warren Davis is the author of The Reactionary Mind: Why ‘Conservative’ Isn’t Enough (Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 2021). He is an editor for Sophia Institute Press…
In retrospect, analytical Marxism seemed like a good idea at the time. This new Marxism, which emerged in the late 1970s, promised to be “analytical,” strengthening the…
This chapter examines the neoconservative movement, liberal hawks who became increasingly disenchanted with the Democratic Party’s foreign policy, Great Society Program, and the cultural values of the…
Walk Away: When the Political Left Turns Right. Lee Trepanier and Grant Havers, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. Perhaps not since the Cold War have public…
Conservatism: An Introduction to the Great Tradition. Roger Scruton. St. Martin’s Press, 2018. "If Lockean liberalism is the conservatism of the English-speaking peoples, what was there…
The observation is often made that political conservatives do not have anything much to say about the arts, either believing, with the libertarians, that in this matter…
I: Preamble Epistemic conservatism in its most generic form is the idea that a belief has some presumption of rationality merely because it is held (Quine). Cognitive…
The essential question confronting American conservatism is what, precisely, it aspires to conserve. The ascension of Donald J. Trump not just to the Oval Office but also…
I. Introduction The dust has finally settled following the 2015 federal election. A new government has been sworn in. Outgoing Parliamentarians have departed. A leadership race to…
The Conservative Sensibility. George Will. New York: Hachette Books, 2019. “We cannot escape the challenge of living by the exacting principles of our Founding, so we…
Astute thinkers from Hegel onward have claimed that we live at the end of the modern world. That does not mean the modern world is about to…
As I read newspapers, popular magazines, listen to National Public Radio, watch cable television, attend Catholic Mass, and work with American academics at the deracinated institutions called…