For at least a generation, the phrase “religious right” has evoked a style of politics marked by hortatory rhetoric, foreign-policy interventionism, and support for the free movement of people and goods. This version of Christian politics reached its zenith during the George W. Bush . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re all familiar with the policy debates that surround the family. How does the tax code interact with family stability and the needs of children? Who should care for children, and how is this care to be supported? What are the ethical implications of fertility technology? But behind all these . . . . Continue Reading »
On May 21, 2013, the French writer Dominique Venner took his own life in front of the main altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Venner was seventy-eight years old when he put a handgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger. He left a note on the altar to explain his “gesture,” which took . . . . Continue Reading »
Anyone who lived through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 will remember the pitiable figure cut by the Eastern Bloc residents interviewed back then. They looked stunned, tongue-tied, disoriented, like rescuees emerging into the sunlight after days in a collapsed mine. Whether they were . . . . Continue Reading »
R. R. Reno joins the podcast to discuss his recent Public Square article “Free and Conservative.” Continue Reading »
Arthur Milikh joins joins the podcast to discuss the new book Up from Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay.
. Continue Reading »Avik Roy and John Hood recently launched what they hope will be a movement, Freedom Conservatism. In consultation with others of like mind, they drafted a statement of principles. It’s available on their website, freedomconservatism.org. One can debate the principles and their formulations. . . . . Continue Reading »
Without a return to God-centered, family-first conservatism, the moral and spiritual health of our culture will continue to decline, even if we pull off the occasional victory. Continue Reading »
Three-quarters of the way through his illuminating new book Regime Change, Patrick Deneen finds the key he’s been groping for over the past several years—the church. Then he drops it again. Continue Reading »
NatCon U.K. brought together many different types of speakers, some with irreconcilable differences, all representing that growing political faction, the Non-Left. Continue Reading »
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