Liberalism Driving the Speed Limit
Glenn Ellmers, the diligent biographer of Harry Jaffa, has called attention to the insufficiently understood friendship between Lincoln scholar and Lincoln admirer Harry Jaffa and the Southern...
View ArticleThe American Mind Podcast: The Roundtable Episode #120
The American Mind’s ‘Editorial Roundtable’ podcast is a weekly conversation with Ryan Williams, James Poulos, Seth Barron, and Spencer Klavan devoted to uncovering the ideas and principles that drive...
View ArticleThe Origins of the New Right – And its Future
The conservative movement has reached a definitive turning point in 2022. We can clearly see the emergence of a new right forming before our very eyes. The political process which ignited anew with...
View ArticleReductio ad Hitlerum
This is about National Review, who isn’t worth giving a lot of consideration—by you or me—so I’ll try to keep it short. One of the pitfalls of success in social media-saturated modern America is you...
View ArticleWhen Everything is Hitler
I see that my defense of my teachers and colleagues from National Review’s Nazi slander has upset some people. It’s hard to know exactly what they are so upset about, because all they do is...
View ArticleThe Purge
An examination of the “gatekeeping” that has taken place in the American conservative movement will bring me sooner or later to the subject of purges. This theme has engaged my interest as an historian...
View ArticleBurkean Nationalism
National Conservatism was first born in England, and in the Brexit referendum of 2016, it won its greatest victory since the end of the Cold War. Like the election of Donald Trump in the United States...
View ArticleThe Constitution, Citizenship, and the New Right
In the face of a powerful American kleptocracy, conservatives should not conclude in discouragement or despair but in ruthless, radical analysis and questioning—smashing the old idols—followed by hope....
View ArticleStatism and the New Right
In addition to being called racists who mindlessly worship Trump, we on the New Right also are accused by the conservative establishment of being statists who oppose free markets and limited...
View ArticleFreeCons vs NatCons
What time is it? Are we living in normal times or revolutionary times? Is the greatest threat to American conservatism today a Walter Mondale-style big-government liberalism? Or is it a woke...
View ArticleRighting the Right
In a recent piece for Commentary (“The Left of the Right”), Matthew Continetti takes aim at the “New Right”—and at me. According to Continetti, “all” New Right writers “share one” key “quality: They...
View ArticleLame Conservatism
Why is conservatism so lame? Conservatism has long been associated with prudes in bow ties who rail against rock and rap music while pledging to die to preserve single-family zoning and tax exemptions...
View ArticlePatrick Buchanan and American Foreign Policy
Writing in National Review Online, Jack Butler takes issue with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’s high praise of Patrick Buchanan in a recent speech. For those who think that the...
View ArticleTradwife Ideology Won’t Save You
If only ideologies worked. It’s easy to see why they tempt us: they promise to absolve us from having to think about complex practical decisions. They hold out the hope of black and white absolutes....
View ArticleNational Conservatism vs. American Conservatism
What goes by the name of “National Conservatism” is perhaps the most visible, identifiable, and successful part of the New Right. It overlaps with the MAGA conservatives, but not every National...
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