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Conservatism’s Baton Twirler
A Republican administration that wages war against immigrants and colleges should be understood as the culmination of William F. Buckley conservative movement.
by
Osita Nwanevu
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 2, 2025
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
Cracked, Costly Fantasies
The legacy of right-wing ideologies in California.
by
Dan O’Sullivan
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
June 28, 2025
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
MAGA Without Greatness
From "National Greatness" to "Make America Great Again."
by
Joshua Tait
via
To Live Is To Maneuver
on
March 19, 2025
The Dark Legacy of Reaganism
Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The New Republic
on
February 19, 2025
A Constitutionalist or a Revolutionist?
Which one was Abraham Lincoln?
by
Herman Belz
via
Modern Age
on
February 17, 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
partner
Jimmy Carter Was a Successful (Conservative) President
Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.
by
Paul Matzko
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Made By History
on
December 29, 2024
The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism
Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.
by
Thomas Zimmer
via
Democracy Americana
on
December 16, 2024
The History of Gay Conservatism
LGBTQ voters overwhelmingly went for Harris, but the idea that gay voters are always going to be solidly blue is a myth.
by
Roger Lancaster
via
Damage
on
December 11, 2024
What the New Right Learned in School
Many of today's most influential right-wing tactics and arguments have their roots in 1960s-era college campuses.
by
Emily M. Brooks
via
Contingent
on
November 17, 2024
partner
Genesis of the Modern American Right
During the Great Depression, financial elites translated European fascism into an American form that joined high capital with lower middle-class populism.
by
Joseph M. Fronczak
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Matthew Wills
via
JSTOR Daily
on
September 16, 2024
Did the Early 1990s Break American Politics?
John Ganz offers a whirlwind tour of the cranks, conservatives, and con artists who helped remake the American right at the turn of the 21st century.
by
David Klion
via
The Nation
on
July 29, 2024
An Implausible Mr. Buckley
A new PBS documentary whitewashes the conservative founder of National Review.
by
Rick Perlstein
via
The American Prospect
on
April 17, 2024
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
The GOP's Lurch to the Right
Past conservative figures seem moderate by today's standards.
by
Brian Rosenwald
via
Smerconish
on
February 27, 2024
Modern Conservatism Was Born on College Campuses. So Why Does the GOP Hate Them?
Leaders of the political right learned lessons from the 1960s that still inform the movement today.
by
Ian Ward
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Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
via
Politico Magazine
on
September 4, 2023
The Right Uses College Campuses as Its Training Grounds
Conservatives love to bemoan their supposed status as oppressed minorities in universities. But the college campus has long been a key site for the Right.
by
Scott Wasserman Stern
via
Jacobin
on
August 17, 2023
The Effective Conservative Governance of Ike Eisenhower
The conservative successes of the Eisenhower administration have been too quickly forgotten.
by
Geoffrey Kabaservice
via
The American Conservative
on
October 15, 2022
Abortion and Partisan Entrenchment
The modern Republican Party has tied itself to Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, the party is vulnerable to new issues.
by
Jack Balkin
via
Social Science Research Network
on
September 14, 2022
To Understand the Modern GOP, Look at the Reactionary ’90s
The most vitriolic and morally panicked conservative figures of the 1990s contributed just as much to modern American conservatism as Ronald Reagan did.
by
Paul M. Renfro
via
Jacobin
on
August 21, 2022
They Want Your Child!
How right-wing school panics seek to repeal modernity and progress.
by
Rick Perlstein
via
The Forum
on
July 22, 2022
Why the American Founding Must Remain Central to Conservatism
An American conservatism which subtly or directly marginalizes the Founding is on a fast track to a conservatism at odds with America’s roots itself.
by
Samuel Gregg
via
National Review
on
February 6, 2022
Rise of the Far-Right Ultras
A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The Nation
on
January 11, 2022
The Rise of the Elite Anti-Intellectual
For decades, “common sense” has been a convenient framing for conservative ideas. The label hides a more complicated picture.
by
Simon Brown
via
Dissent
on
August 20, 2021
Why Aren’t Conservative Women Recognized During Women’s History Month?
The left regularly dismisses such women as less worthy of recognition.
by
Kay C. James
via
The Washington Times
on
March 1, 2021
Long Before QAnon, Ronald Reagan and The GOP Purged John Birch Extremists From The Party
Six decades ago, leaders in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.
by
Erick Trickey
via
Retropolis
on
January 15, 2021
How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment
Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?
by
Patrick Iber
via
The New Republic
on
August 11, 2020
Daniel Webster, Yankee National Conservative
What 'the forgotten man of American conservatism' has to say about current debates on the right.
by
Joseph S. Laughon
via
The American Conservative
on
May 12, 2020
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