Joshua Tait

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

The conservative movement "assumed it had intellectual ownership over the presidency," but an NEH appointment fight reveals the Reagan administration disagreed.

Ideological entrepreneur, architect of ruin.

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

Where the rediscovery of Sam Francis goes wrong.

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

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

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

How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.