Essays

September 21, 2020

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F. H. Buckley

For a Politics of Mobility

For America to realize its promise of social and economic mobility, it’s going to have to undo the aristocratic policies of the left, and do so without apology.
August 31, 2020

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Daniel McCarthy

Why Not Anarchy?

If the only escape from Leviathan is radical decentralization, will conservatives become Tory anarchists?
August 24, 2020

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Ian Crowe

Patriots and Populists: From Burke to Trump

Edmund Burke struggled to reconfigure the Patriot inheritance. Can lessons be drawn for MAGA patriots?
July 27, 2020

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James E. Person, Jr.

The Tattered Contract: A Kirkian Look at Michel Houellebecq

Both writers identify the central problem of modernity, but only one offers hope.
June 22, 2020

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Gene Callahan

How to Wake Up from Woke Ideology

Woke ideology, like Nazism and Communism, targets enemies for cancellation when its fantasy reality inevitably fails to materialize. Resistance is critical.
June 8, 2020

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Titus Techera

The Wolfe of Wild Democracy

Tom Wolfe described the untamed character of America, and the inadequacy of the nation’s liberal elite, better than anyone—and we need his vision now more than ever.
May 11, 2020

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Tad Tietze

Populist Panic at the Movies

Despite what a fearful political class imagines, “Joker” and “Falling Down” are artful studies in paranoia, not allegories on the politics of “the deplorables.”
May 5, 2020

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Daniel McCarthy

A Philosophy of Fear—and Society of Scolds

What Thomas Hobbes tells us about the response to the coronavirus—and why the unafraid cannot be tolerated by right-thinking liberals.
April 27, 2020

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Mark Judge

Skateboarding with Jordan Peterson—and Nietzsche

What is it about skateboarding that infuriates the moral scolds and tyrannomaniacs?
March 30, 2020

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Cicero Bruce

The Ideal Teacher of Literature

If students are not taught truth derived from an order higher than the natural, they have no hope of forming their characters in light of the perennial verities.

Essays

For a Politics of Mobility

Why Not Anarchy?

Patriots and Populists: From Burke to Trump

The Tattered Contract: A Kirkian Look at Michel Houellebecq

The Wolfe of Wild Democracy

Populist Panic at the Movies

A Philosophy of Fear—and Society of Scolds

Skateboarding with Jordan Peterson—and Nietzsche

The Ideal Teacher of Literature

Science Fiction with a Soul

Moderation as Pursuit of Justice

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