“Our Enemy, the President” — an essay in applied political theory. The title nods at Albert Jay Nock, but much of the inspiration for the piece comes from Willmoore Kendall (and, between the lines, Bertrand de Jouvenel and George W. Carey).

“Is Conservatism Dead?” — a response to Sam Tanenhaus’s “Conservatism Is Dead.” I briefly argue in this University Bookman symposium that a love of Disraeli does not necessarily make one a conservative and that the Cold War Right repudiated Burkean conservatism from the very beginning, when it chose not to heed the anti-anti-Communist wisdom of Viereck, Kennan, Lukacs, and Nisbet.

“Getting Reagan Right” — I was pleasantly surprised by William F. Buckley Jr.’s posthumously published Goldwater book, Flying High, which turned out to be, in part, an affectionate look at the pre-Goldwater Old Right. (Clarence Manion figures prominently.) Buckley’s The Reagan I Knew is equally surprising, seemingly influenced by the Reagan revisionism of Paul Lettow and John Patrick Diggins. I give WFB considerable credit for rethinking Reagan, rather than regurgitating the conservative movement line. (I’ll be discussing Buckley at ISI’s “God and Man at CPAC” panel this Saturday, by the way.)

And, going back to late ’08, “McGovern Beats Nixon,” my argument for how the reaction against George McGovern created a new, less conservative, more authoritarian Right.