Conservative Minds

Sowell introduces us to his concept of competing visions in American political life. The constrained vision sees progres... Read more

According to Deneen, liberalism has failed because it was true to itself. The Left and Right cooperate in the expansion ... Read more

Bill Buckley nearly single-handedly initiated the modern American conservative movement. He launched the National Review... Read more

Weaver identified philosophical and cultural trends bubbling in the 1940s that denied absolute truth and higher-ordered ... Read more

Burke believed deeply in tradition as the governing principle for human flourishing. He called society a living contract... Read more

Russell Kirk was an early aggregator of conservative thought. He traced conservative intellectual history from Edmund Bu... Read more

For Machiavelli, the end of politics is the maximization of power. A prince achieves greatness through calculation and m... Read more

Buchanan sees an America divided by class. The elite class of professionals benefit from globalization and trade, while ... Read more

Milton Friedman was the twentieth century’s most prominent advocate of free markets. He argues that the free market - wh... Read more

Hayek sees a choice between individualism and socialism. He contrasts the Enlightenment project of liberal individualism... Read more

Charles Murray uses sociological research to show how white America is dividing into classes based on cognitive ability.... Read more

Crisis of the House Divided is Jaffa's exploration of Abraham Lincoln's political thought. Lincoln believed that the rig... Read more

Dreher has some hard truths for Christian conservatives: the culture war is over, and values-voters have lost. The light... Read more

The Federalist Papers are 85 letters written under the pen name “Publius”. Publius was the joint creation of Alexander H... Read more

Locke posits an original human state of nature characterized by nominal freedom and equality. People leave the state of ... Read more

Cass argues that work matters. Trade, efficiency gains, and immigration have led to growth in GDP, but he says we gave u... Read more

Hazony argues that, for centuries, Western nations have been characterized by a struggle between two antithetical vision... Read more

Bloom warns about the moral relativism capturing the American academe. He calls out this movement toward 'openness' as a... Read more

Strauss sees a lowering of the sights of political life from a classical focus on values and the Good to a Modern fetish... Read more

Von Mises argues that the created wealth of our time can be traced back to classical liberal/capitalist institutions. Ev... Read more