July/August 2020

cover story
Editorial
What is American conservatism?
Front Lines
Black Americans Deserve Better, Corey Brooks
Burden Shedding in the Middle East, Ted Galen Carpenter
The Fight for the Right, Oren Cass
Blobology, William S. Lind
Cover/Symposium
Washingtonian Realism, John A. Burtka IV
Restoration and Recovery, Michael Brendan Doughterty
A Middle-Class Republic, Chris Buskirk
Conservatism as Stewardship, Andrew Bacevich
Politics Oriented Towards Love, Gracy Olmstead
Fusionism: A Defense, Neal B. Freeman
Conservatism Defies Definitions, Bradley J. Birzer
Look Homeward, Bill Kauffman
Who Cares About Conservatism?, Julius Krein
Beyond Conservatism?, David Azerrad
A Failure, Sohrab Ahmari
Start With Anthropology, Yuval Levin
A Counterrevolutionary Force, Daniel McCarthy
Of, By, and For the People, Patrick J. Deneen
Constitutional Conservatism, Richard M. Reinsch II
Progressive Conservatism, F.H. Buckley
America Needs a Re-Founding, Matthew J. Peterson
Definitions Please!, Claes G. Ryn
Natural Right Conservatism, James Piereson
Cheerful Allegiance to Truth, Roger Kimball
Skepticism and Gratitude, Rachel Bovard
Have Faith in America, William Ruger
Features
An Open Letter to a Socialist, Scott McConnell
Kings of Souls, John A. Burtka IV
Elites Abandoned Nationalism, Robert W. Merry
The Saagar Enjeti Enigma, Curt Mills
The Foreign Policy We Need, W. James Antle III
The Scrutopian Way, Lewis McCrary
Arts & Letters
Malaparte Goes to Paris, Helen Andrews (Diary of a Foreigner in Paris, Curzio Malaparte)
Citizenship, Place, and a Humane Economy; Gerald J. Russello (Land and Liberty: The Best of Free America, edited by Allan C. Carlson)
Our Most Important Yankee Founder, Kevin R.C. Gutzman (The Education of John Adams, R.B. Bernstein)
Bespoke Religious Identities, Daniel Wiser, Jr. (Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, Tara Isabella Burton)
Setting the Wheel of History Alight, Tony Woodlief (The Red Wheel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Commentary
Enlightened nationalism, Pat Buchanan
My old (and peaceful) Kentucky home, Bill Kauffman
What happens when politics go viral?, Aram Bakshian Jr.