Who Defines Marriage?
America’s institutions embody a philosophy of equality—and that has consequences.
The GOP’s Vietnam
How Republican foreign policy lost the culture war—and a generation
Can a Realist Be a Republican?
Nuance and consensus are hallmarks of Chuck Hagel’s school of thought—and antithetical to the Tea Party GOP.
Outsider Conservatism
From Burke to Buckley, traditionalism has never meant conformism.
How Does a Traditionalist Vote?
An intelligent conservative’s guide to the presidential election
Modernism & Conservatism
Does the culture of “The Waste Land” lead to freedom—or something more?
Is the GOP Still a National Party?
Once the landslide party, Republicans have won but a single popular majority in the last 20 years.
Does Rand Paul Have the Future?
The senator’s boomer style is no easy fit for his father’s millennial movement.
Why the Right Can’t Win the Gay Marriage Fight
Social conservatives lose to liberal modernity
Whatever Happened to Conservatism?
Bringing America Home: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back, Tom Pauken, Chronicles Press, 204 pages
Conservatism’s First Family
An American Family: The Buckleys, Reid Buckley, Threshold Editions, 459 pages
Fewer Bases, More Baseball
Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism, Bill Kauffman, Metropolitan, 274 pages
Up, Up, and Away
Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism, Alfred S. Regnery, Threshold Editions, 448 pages; and, The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History, Donald T. Critchlow, Harvard University Press, 359 pages
There’s Something About Barry
Goldwater has many claimants to his legacy, but most lack his rebellious spirit.
The Waugh at Home
Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family, Alexander Waugh, Nan A. Talese, 472 pages
An American For All Seasons
George Kennan: A Study of Character, John Lukacs, Yale University Press, 207 pages
