Law & Liberty

I was probably in the second or third grade when Lois Lowry came to speak in my elementary school. She was not yet a Newbery-winning author at this time, but I was curious to see her, because I’d read several of her books: the Anastasia Krupnik series, as well as 

In the late twentieth century, social conservatives and classical liberals came together under the leadership of Ronald Reagan, building a successful platform for the Republican Party. Though he did not live to see the movement come to fruition, National Review editor Frank Meyer forged the theoretical underpinnings of that alliance, as Stephanie Slade explains in he...

In 1953, something truly wonderful happened, something that has not happened again and quite possibly never will. The political right coalesced into a powerful intellectual movement that drove conversations and challenged the left for control of major institutions. 

Nisbet’s Quest for Community, Kirk’s The Conservative Mind, Strauss’s Natural R...

Despite decades of debates, American conservatism remains ill-defined. Throughout the movement’s entire intellectual history, defenders of “liberty” and “authority” have been locked in a seemingly irrepressible conflict about not only its political direction but also its foundational principles. “Conservatism, after all, is a relative term,” the ex-communist National Revi...

There was a time a few years back when the postliberal intellectuals were more active on X. It made for some interesting moments. Most of them have now been deleted, scrubbed, or otherwise tossed down the memory hole, but who lived through that period could forget the time postliberal fans circulated a meme with the title “Postliberal Boy Summer”? It included a Mount-Rushmore...