Conservatism
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Home, Not Freedom
I’m a proponent of academic freedom. But what we need today is a home and an inheritance,…
Abraham Lincoln, Matchmaker
What if Abraham Lincoln had sent a young socialite to meet an injured soldier, without telling her…
Learning from Reagan on Healthcare
Henry Olsen’s brilliant, revisionist intellectual biography of Ronald Reagan should transform how we think of our fortieth…
The Right and the Youth
William Kristol argues that Trump’s unpopularity among the young constitutes a reason to abandon him, so that…
A Report from Morningside
I just wrapped up my undergraduate career at Columbia University. It was a strange time to be…
A Restless Mind, In Search of Truth
The news came as a shock, but turned into an outpouring of love and affection, reminiscences and…
What I Saw At The Debate Between Dissent and American Affairs
Down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass, young writers and editors dressed in black crowd into the offices…
Bearing Witness from Prison in Indonesia
He is called Ahok, and until a few weeks ago he was one of Indonesia’s most powerful…
Living Communally in God’s Good Creation
I may be somewhat out of step with my fellow Reformed Christians in acknowledging a certain affinity…
Going Benedict, Orthodox Jewish Style
In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, characters “go Galt” by disappearing into a valley, Galt’s Gulch, when society…
The Benedict Option and the Way of Exchange
Surely there has never been a richer and more deeply faithful model of Christian faith and practice…
In Praise of the “New Alarmism”
Let’s start with two simple facts. All of us have limited time. Most of us have limited…
Yale’s Accidental Tribute to John C. Calhoun
Late last week, Yale announced that it would remove the name of John C. Calhoun from one…
Love With No Future
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungby roger scrutonallen lane, 368 pages,…
First Things, the Live Option
Christian undergraduates at elite universities often feel forced into a troubling dichotomy: They may go “all-in” for…
