Russell Kirk

To him, the Revolution was “not made but prevented.”

A new biography of Robert Welch traces the origins and history of the anti-Communist John Birch Society and provides historical perspective on the Trump era.

Calvin Coolidge and others are bringing together student libertarians and trads, but that doesn't make for a coherent coalition.

Movement conservatism’s excommunications have always centered on one set of issues.

Tracing Thomas Sowell’s shift from Marxism to the Chicago school of economics.

Ideological entrepreneur, architect of ruin.

A new Library of America edition of John Quincy Adams’s writings demonstrates the enduring appeal—and real shortcomings—of his revolutionary conservatism.

A long and ugly history.

Which one was Abraham Lincoln?

Compared to their 1960s forerunners, today’s young radicals seem far less interested in moving towards responsible adulthood.

Conservative “populism” has never been about egalitarianism, but about mobilizing support for traditional hierarchies.

Six decades ago, leaders in the GOP backed away from the conspiracy theories peddled by the leader of the increasingly influential John Birch Society.

For millennia, humans have followed specific patterns passed down by their forbears without always knowing why.

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”