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Frank Meyer testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1959.

Frank Meyer’s Path from Devoted Communist to Promoter of Conservative ‘Fusionism’

A detailed, exhausting, and ultimately too-gentle treatment of the midcentury writer and editor, Frank Meyer.

by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on August 26, 2025

Ed Feulner and the Heritage Foundation

The Trumpist Legacy of Ed Feulner and the Heritage Foundation

Ideological entrepreneur, architect of ruin.

by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on July 24, 2025

Composite Curtis Yarvin, a crown, an atom diagram, and a cathedral.

Curtis Yarvin’s Cranky Yearnings

He didn’t give the tech right new ideas—not really. What he gave them was permission.

by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on July 14, 2025

Sam Francis

He’s a Key Thinker of the Radical Right, But Is He All That?

Where the rediscovery of Sam Francis goes wrong.

by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on April 11, 2025

Photograph of JFK speaking to a crowd.

MAGA Without Greatness

From "National Greatness" to "Make America Great Again."

by Joshua Tait via To Live Is To Maneuver on March 19, 2025

Edward C. Banfield and What Conservatism Used to Mean

Hard thinking on difficult and uncomfortable questions about how to keep everything from falling apart.

by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on February 1, 2025

A burning candle in front of the American flag.

The Origins of Conservatism’s ‘Gnostic’ Meme

You can thank Eric Voegelin for the right’s clichéd catchall critique for the left.

by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on April 12, 2024

Conservatives’ Self-Delusion on Race

How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.

by Joshua Tait via Made By History on October 5, 2018

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