John C. Calhoun was intelligent, public-spirited, and forthright. But he lacked a virtue that his age and our own both desperately need—political humility.
William F. Buckley Jr.’s “God and Man at Yale” raised howls among left-leaning academics when it debuted in 1951, revealing the atheist and collectivist indoctrination that abounded at the Ivy League school. In 2021, not much has changed.
Progressive historians struggle to explain how so many Americans could have voted for a man they believe to have been a racist. And they mean Ronald Reagan.
Does American conservatism need a revised canon of its classic texts? If so, shouldn’t it at least be…conservative?
This is no longer your father’s American conservatism. Who gets to define it in 2021?
A new book offers hope to the right for effective realistic public-education reform that emphasizes character as well as curriculum. All that’s needed is the will.
Both writers identify the central problem of modernity, but only one offers hope.
The goal is clear: Stop the federal government and its hostile-elite allies from undermining our fundamental, natural associations.
George Will has been a signal voice among conservative commentators for decades. Is his latest book on the future of conservatism his greatest contribution yet?
The enthusiastic support many evangelicals have given President Trump has baffled observers, including some prominent evangelicals who are beginning to push back.
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