Conservatism

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Social Liberal Hubris

Pete Spiliakos

Mark Udall’s senatorial defeat might have been the sweetest victory for social conservatism on Tuesday. He organized…

What the Midterms Mean for Social Conservatives

Brandon McGinley

I’m never more of a partisan than on election night. All my misgivings about the Republican Party…

The Dominican Option

C. C. Pecknold

There’s been a long conversation in America about the degree to which Catholic Christianity is compatible with…

A Pessimistic Case for Hope

Yuval Levin

Ten years ago this fall, it seemed for a moment like social conservatives might be ascendant in…

Tocqueville in Arabia

Joshua Mitchell

Over the course of the last three hundred years, in broad swaths of the globe where Anglo-American…

Welcome Back, Ted

John Murdock

This Thursday, for the first time since he argued before the Supreme Court in 2013 for a…

Ronald Reagan: Cold Warrior and Nuclear Abolitionist

George Weigel

In recent years, as scholars have explored Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy with greater access to primary-source documents,…

Give The People Some Respect

Pete Spiliakos

Mitt Romney is a good guy. He just doesn’t want you to know it. He tithes. He…

The Making of a Misleading Metaphor

Kenneth L. Woodward

The sturdiest storyline in the coverage of the canonization of two popes last Sunday was a narrative…

Beat the Establishment

Pete Spiliakos

The divorce papers of Democratic lobbyist super couple Tony and Heather Podesta show that for a certain…

Isolated in the Information Age

Pete Spiliakos

Young voters are more politically up-for-grabs than one would think. They are more likely to favor same-sex…

Forgetting Middle America

Pete Spiliakos

Speaking at a party retreat, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told his colleagues that the party had…

Books for Christmas

George Weigel

If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at…

Review of Can God Be Trusted?

Brian A. Graebe

Can God Be Trusted? Finding Faith in Troubled Times by Thomas D. Williams FaithWords, 224 pages, $19.99…

On the Anniversary of Tocqueville’s Death

Diana Schaub

If Alexis de Tocqueville was right in observing that the American nation insists upon “perpetual adoration of…