Tocqueville versus the Groypers
The Frenchman’s treatment of Arthur de Gobineau offers a lesson for today’s intra-conservative debates.| Law & Liberty
The Frenchman’s treatment of Arthur de Gobineau offers a lesson for today’s intra-conservative debates.| Law & Liberty
My students insist that Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York City's November 4, 2025, general election marks the ascension of socialism. They're wrong. Mamdani's win was striking but hardly a mandate. It was a local triumph inflated by media narrative and youthful zeal, not a genuine ideological revolution. The post Mamdani Won, but It’s Not a Socialist Mandate appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
It is interesting how often such instances involve the state of Israel.| Caitlin Johnstone
A thought experiment on the implications of ideological monocultures for student learning and faculty research The post What If Conservatives Dominated Higher Education? appeared first on Education Next.| Education Next
[Note: Spoilers follow.]| In Medias Res
Robert Nisbet’s classic book strikes a chord more than seventy years later.| Modern Age
Margaret Thatcher is still worth celebrating in her centenary year.| Modern Age
A path for Catholic politics between liberalism and reaction.| Modern Age
Former president Donald J. Trump has attempted to distance himself from Project 2025, the conservative policy initiative. But well over half of its contributors have worked for him, and many of its policies overlap with his.| www.nytimes.com
Those societies which retain, in changing circumstances, a lively sense of their own identity and continuity (which are without that hatred of their own experience which makes them desire to efface it) are to be counted fortunate, not because they possess what others lack, but because they have already mobilized what none is without and… Read More »Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity The post Michael Oakeshott on political activity and continuity appeared first on Drive...| Driverless Crocodile
I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman of that society [the English Revolutionary Society, which wrote a letter to the French National Assembly in support of the Revolution], be he who he will; and perhaps I have given as good proofs of my attachment to that… Read More »Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King The post Edmund Burke on Circumstances and Political Principles; or, Context is King appeared fir...| Driverless Crocodile
Chris Sagers suggests that something significant could be happening in antitrust, though it probably remains academic for now, and it is hidden behind political messaging that in recent times has gotten most of the attention. He argues that the populist or politicizing talk of antitrust leaders during both the present administration and the last one has grown more detached from real-world administration. But he argues that there may be real change going on behind the scenes, as expressed in p...| ProMarket
The assassination of Charlie Kirk puts to rest the dreamy hope that President Trump’s 2024 election was the final word on identity politics in America. The revolutionary faction he defeated at the ballot box walks not by argument, but by faith. It is a faith that the innocent victims of the world cannot rest until... Read more about: Charlie Kirk, Scapegoat The post Charlie Kirk, Scapegoat appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed at a Utah college event in an act that the state’s governor called a “political assassination.”| AP News
With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump.| AP News
Young conservatives can learn a great deal from Flynn’s account of Meyer’s life.| Public Discourse
Charlie, you see, has suffered enough. He’s gone to the Lord. He deserves his reward.| Imprimis
Conservatism is on the rise among Gen Z, and Fordham students are growing increasingly aware of this phenomenon. Conservatism in the United States is deeply rooted in the belief that the interpretation of the Constitution must be based on the authors’’ intent and preserving those traditions amidst societal changes over time. The conversation around conservatism... The post The Rise of Conservatism appeared first on The Observer.| The Observer
Beatrice Prince (‘28): I met Charlie Kirk this summer outside the White House while I was interning for Senator Tom Cotton. I had followed him for nearly ten years, but that day he became real to me. He didn’t just shake my hand and move on; he stopped, smiled, and spoke to me with a [...] The post Tell the Tory: Princetonians Reflect on the Life of Charlie Kirk first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk was assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University. He was murdered while engaging in good-faith dialogue with college students – the proper, tried-and-true way of practicing politics in a republic. He leaves behind a widowed wife and two young children. His death is a tragedy for his family and the [...] The post Statement on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
American conservatism exists to serve the people and the nation through the Constitution. This includes defending them against enemies foreign and domestic. And the fact is, elite institutions have become the people’s and the nation’s enemies. They are openly waging cultural war on those they ostensibly serve. They cannot be negotiated with or accommodated. They must be defunded, disbanded, and disempowered. The rewards for doing so—for putting American families first again—will be gr...| Imprimis
Charlie Kirk’s life and death offer a microcosm of the MAGA movement’s shift to the right over the past decade—and of the dynamic factional interplay that has fueled that shift. Regardless of why Kirk…| Three Way Fight
This issue exemplifies the wide sweep of the Civil War Era as scholars understand it, and the success of the journal’s now fifteen-year-long effort to promote broadminded interrogation of the many forces that shaped the middle of the nineteenth century and reveal their impacts. The issue opens with Yael A. Sternhell’s “The Archive / An … Read More Read More The post Previewing the September 2025 JCWE appeared first on The Journal of the Civil War Era.| The Journal of the Civil War Era
The first step is resisting simplistic dichotomies.| Modern Age
A classic essay from 1960: libertarians and traditionalists share much in common.| Modern Age
People's Action will not let the greedy few destroy our democracy. Right now, everything is on the line. The ultra-rich and massive corporations think the rules of democracy no longer apply to them. And with Donald Trump in the White House, they want to write themselves a blank check and hand it to Trump to […] Source| OurFuture.org by People's Action
While the transcendent aspirations of conservatives like John Wilsey are good and true, they must take populist challenges more seriously.| Law & Liberty
Daniel J. Flynn’s forthcoming biography of Frank S. Meyer describes foundations’ roles in his life and work—and thus in the American conservatism, and America, he helped forge.| the Giving Review
Lee Jones recently spoke to a conference of logistics professionals about the rapid changes in global politics. He argued that the current chaos is the result of the continuing decay of the old neo…| The Northern Star
See also: GK Chesterton on HG Wells and the function of an open mindFools’ Money (2): Counter ArgumentChesterton’s Fence (at Farnham Street)| Driverless Crocodile
Nearly every major figure in the conservative movement has a biography.| Compact
[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic] | In Medias Res
Last December, former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy took to X (formerly Twitter) to share a now-infamous rant about the supposed decay of American culture. With his signature populist edge, he claimed the United States “venerates mediocrity” and punishes ambition, arguing immigrants from Asia (and their American-born children) outperform multi-generational Americans because they come from [...] The post On American Cultural Superiority first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
Earlier this year, I published an article sharply criticizing white nationalism, neo-Nazism, and the resurgence of paleoconservatism within the Republican Party. In retrospect, I made a significant rookie error: I conflated paleoconservatism with the fringe ideologies of white nationalism and neo-Nazism. This mischaracterization stemmed from a shallow understanding of paleoconservatism, which I had not yet [...] The post A Realignment of the Right first appeared on The Princeton Tory.| The Princeton Tory
Peter Ramsay argues that the British right’s proposal for a Great Repeal Act only reveals the futility of its approach to the nation. An online Anglofuturist put out a video last week weaving toget…| The Northern Star
The backlash against “wokeism” has led a growing number of states to ban D.E.I. programs at public universities. Thousands of emails and other documents reveal the playbook — and grievances — behind one strand of the anti-D.E.I. campaign.| www.nytimes.com
One of the things that initially surprised me after I wrote Woke Imperium, was that so many more left wing people wanted to engage affirmatively with it than right wing people. A big part of it was…| The Trickster's Guide to Geopolitics
[Cross-posted to Front Porch Republic ] President Trump has been in office a month as of today, and the maelstrom of orders and actions wh...| inmedias.blogspot.com
Nazi comparisons in politics mislead, distort history, and polarize. These flawed arguments derail discourse and deepen divisions in modern society.| Public Square Magazine
Academically, I am a Political Scientist and a Gardnerian Witch, in both cases for about 40 years. I encountered the Craft soon after gaining my Ph.D. at Berkeley. I cut my ideological teeth as a young conservative in high school … Read more| Gus diZerega
Peter Ramsay argues that the official reaction to the recent riots in England is an ideological distortion that seeks to deflect responsibility for national disintegration. The riots and disorder t…| The Northern Star
As a straight, white, middle-aged, college-educated, settled-community, cisgender man, I know that I benefit from more than my fair share of privilege. So if I have found Pride Month somewhat stressful, I can only imagine how others must have felt. Pride Month just isn’t what it used to be. What […] The post Why are transphobes so transphobic? appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
Historian David Olusoga has been speaking about the ironies of ‘cancel culture’: Olusoga, whose work has explored black Britishness and the legacy of empire and slavery, said that people “feel perfectly comfortable making these comments about me without being able to point to a single reference or footnote in my […] The post ‘Cancel culture’ paranoia and other right-wing hysterics reveal medical conservatism’s true colours appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
Hello! I hope your Saturday is going well. Here is a talk I gave in November, at the Psychological Society of Ireland’s annual conference. The transcript appears below. Enjoy! * * * * * * Transcript: Psychology, religion, and public policy Now, this particular topic is very wide-ranging. I wouldn’t […] The post Psychology, religion, and public policy appeared first on The Science Bit.| The Science Bit
The UK’s general election result might seem like a restoration of the old pre-2016 political order. A bland technocrat has won a sweeping majority. However, Peter Ramsay and Philip Cunliffe argue t…| The Northern Star
With a General Election looming, Peter Ramsay spoke last week at the London School of Economics about why the survival of the British nation is in doubt and why the politics of culture war are an e…| The Northern Star
The observation is often made that political conservatives do not have anything much to say about the arts, but that is not the whole truth.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
by Philip E. Agre| shoqvalue.com
Loosely defined, the phrase “liberal arts” refers to courses in Western philosophy, theology, literature, art, and history, with science and foreign languages playing a real but secondary role. For…| BruceAshford.net
