Conservatism
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A Mirthful Memoir of the Right
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s American Spectator reflects its founder’s joie de vivre.
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Gerald Ford’s Quiet Triumph
He gave the country a much-needed post-Watergate stability.
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Russell Kirk, 1918–1994
This memorial of the Sage of Mecosta, originally from 1995, recalls the man in full.
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Right Reason Does Not Pay
The story of Modern Age: encounters with Flannery O’Connor, Leo Strauss, and the utopian designs of Moral Rearmament.
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Russell Kirk’s Gothic Ghost
Three decades after his death, the Sage of Mecosta lives on.
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Who Bill Buckley Was—And Was Not
A new PBS documentary misses what made him an American Master.
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Looking for the Right Economics
A free-market revival or a turn to “progressive conservatism”? Samuel Gregg and F. H. Buckley chart two possible courses for conservatives.
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Conservatives vs. the Cult of the Self
A response to Donald Devine on tensions between Straussians and fusionists.
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Are Straussians Fusionists?
The tension between reason and tradition links the philosophical descendants of Harry Jaffa and Frank Meyer.
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Paul Weyrich: Father of a New Right
He co-founded the Heritage Foundation, named the Moral Majority—and fought to make conservatism more working class and democratic.
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