Essays

January 19, 2018

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Richard M. Reinsch II

Autonomy on the Road to Tyranny

The pursuit of personal freedom has meant the trashing of tradition and a consequent all-consuming present.
January 19, 2018

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Paul Seaton

Charlemagne’s European Project—and Rémi Brague’s

Is Europe worth saving? If so, it will have to look to its philosophical and religious forebears for sustenance.
January 19, 2018

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Pierre Manent

Natural Law and Human Motives

Without natural law, man-made laws are emptied of meaning, subjecting us to the vagaries of legislated human feeling.
January 19, 2018

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Donald J. Devine

René Girard’s Challenge to Fusionism

As conservatism seeks a fresh self-understanding, the role of tradition—myth and religion—must be emphasized, lest state coercion be all we are left with.
January 19, 2018

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Mark Pulliam

The Libertarian Constitutional Fantasy

Libertarians want us to place an unwarranted faith in judges to protect “unenumerated rights.” This is a utopian recipe for disaster.
January 19, 2018

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Jesse Merriam

Countering the Counterrevolution Narrative

When will legal scholars recognize that so-called conservatives have been conserving progressive victories?
October 19, 2017

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Lee Edwards

The Mind Behind “The Conservative Mind”

It took a polymath of the Western soul to produce Russell Kirk’s masterpiece—and that’s just what Kirk was.
October 19, 2017

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Justin Dyer and Micah Watson

The Old Western Man: C.S. Lewis on Politics and Modernity

The man who despaired of political solutions had much to say about the foundations of a just political order.
October 18, 2017

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Hunter Baker

The Birth of an American Christian Democratic Party

Why Christian Democracy can succeed where other third ways and third parties have failed
October 18, 2017

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Timothy George

What the Reformers Thought They Were Doing

To understand the Protestant Reformation, forget the myths and look to the motifs

Essays

Autonomy on the Road to Tyranny

Charlemagne’s European Project—and Rémi Brague’s

Natural Law and Human Motives

René Girard’s Challenge to Fusionism

The Libertarian Constitutional Fantasy

Countering the Counterrevolution Narrative

The Mind Behind “The Conservative Mind”

The Old Western Man: C.S. Lewis on Politics and Modernity

The Birth of an American Christian Democratic Party

What the Reformers Thought They Were Doing

Science Fiction with a Soul

Moderation as Pursuit of Justice

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