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Who We Are
Americans didn’t always think of themselves as conservatives. ... “Conservative” was a label for the backward and authoritarian, the most hidebound elements of Old Europe (read more).
The ‘Good Society’ Realism of Zbigniew Brzezinski
The former national security adviser shares George Kennan’s view that power abroad rests on justice and decency at home.
Benedict Option
A medieval model inspires Christian communities today.
How Not to Fix America
Heritage Foundation scholar Kim Holmes’s new book betrays a conservative movement out of touch with the nation.
China’s Monroe Doctrine—or Escalation in Asia?
What America’s Far East “pivot” and Beijing’s new Air Defense Identification Zone mean.
Why Newt Is Right About Mandela
Gingrich to conservative critics: “What would you have done?”
Remembering Jim Morrison
The Doors frontman and his admiral father lived a generation’s turmoil.
Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up?
The pontiff is no Marxist—he’s a Catholic who knows how economics shapes culture.
Do Europeans Think Spheres Of Influence Are Obsolete?
The EU thought it had transcended nationalism, but Ukraine stirs old fears.
2012’s Lessons for Republicans
George McGovern’s coalition has finally prevailed—but why?
The Political Form of Freedom
Can there be self-government outside the nation or city-state? Pierre Manent offers a philosophical answer.
Seven Conservative Minds
Russell Kirk’s revisions trace the right’s evolution—and his own.
Why the Tea Party Can’t Govern
A populist spin can’t save purely negative principles.
The Character of Sir Robert Peel
“No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman—the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.”
On the Spirit of Patriotism
The obligations of a prudent opposition.
Declaring War Doesn’t Make It Right
The challenge of democratic accountability in foreign policy.
TAC CLASSICS
Iran: Past the Paranoia
At once theocratic, secular, hostile, and modern, Iran is not America’s natural enemy.
Rod Dreher
Yoga: Exercise Of Religion Or Mere Exercise?
Rod Dreher
Talking Tough To Cardinal Dolan
Patrick J. Deneen
Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up?
Rod Dreher
The Mandela Myth