The Link between Age and Conservatism Is Breaking

Millennials and Gen Z are not becoming more conservative as they age, as generations before them did. Why?

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Michael Oakeshott understood that conservatism changes with the times. It finds different expressions, depending on where we find ourselves:

Oakeshott is correct that older people tend to be more conservative than the young. But his words offer several cautions, and they raise an uncomfortable question: Has the American way of life become anti-conservative?

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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