There is plenty of talk of threats to 'Our Democracy,' but what is really in danger today is the classical liberal tradition ...

John Hood explores the origins and tenets of modern American conservatism, which many now call "Freedom Conservatism." ...

Schmitz Stephen Miller has described the “big, beautiful” bill as “the MAGA agenda in legislative form.” He’s right, and it’s an agenda with some fundamental contradictions. You can’t keep slashing ...

I’m a conservative without a conversion story. Plenty of others have such a tale — they read a certain book, had a certain ...

While American liberalism debates, round and round, whether Trumpism is a form of fascism, conservatives and conservatism’s fellow travelers have their own running debate about what exactly is ...

He was the liberal major party candidate in the race all along. Trump’s Win Was a Victory for Liberalism - The American Conservative Politics Foreign Affairs Culture Fellows Program Login ...

Liberalism in political philosophy presents itself as a doctrine that emphasizes individual rights, political freedoms, private property, and the rule of law. Thinkers such as John Locke ...

These thinkers made their case by contending that American liberalism was rooted in theological sources, that Catholic orthodoxy was essentially liberal, and that the GOP was tailor-made to unite ...

Liberals have for many decades tried to replace the Constitution’s ideas of limited federal and presidential power, checks and balances, and federalism with majoritarian democracy, expanded and ...

The post-Cold War order ultimately proved disastrous for American liberalism: a return to the actually existing order of 1945 may prove more congenial.

Clarence Manion, the former Notre Dame Law School dean and a key figure in publishing Barry Goldwater’s A Conscience of a Conservative, telegrammed Buckley in March 1961 to warn him not to say ...

The evergreen questions raised by the label "conservative" are: Conserving what and from whom? One popular answer to this ...