The Repository
Where Are the American Conservatives?
Conservatives endure social reform with a conservative spirit. They don’t systematically oppose it.
The Making of a Common Will
The art of governing by the consent of 100 million opinions
The Mystery of Woodrow Wilson
Governor Wilson, endearing, courteous, became President, aloof, dictatorial, opportunistic.
Aphorisms on Moral Judgments in History
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
Evolution, Individualism, and the End of the Family
The philosophies of the 19th century—statist and individualist alike—set the scene for social decay.
What America Can Learn from Kutusov
From education to decentralization, the Russian who beat Napoleon teaches victory by retreat.
MORE FROM The Repository
Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species
The problem with this unimaginative “vision stuff”
Foreign Policy and the American Mind
Democracy veers toward hubris and absolutism.
Toward a New Fusionism?
The Old Right makes new alliances
The Revolt of the Masses
A Spanish philosopher grapples with hyperdemocracy.
Eliot, Pound, and Lewis: A Creative Friendship
The unlikely triumph of three American classicists in Europe
A Letter to Samuel Adams
“The multitude, therefore, as well as the nobles, must have a check.”
The Reactionary Rousseau
Was the dark prophet of progress a Jacobin or a Jeffersonian?
Anarchist’s Progress
A child’s taste of party politics leads to a lifetime of anti-statism.
The Fallacy of Territorial Extension
Our federated republic wasn’t designed for empire.
The Convenient State
Why constitutional conservatism is not about perfect justice.
