Second-Person Politics
Gerald J. Russello reviews Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition, by Roger Scruton.
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Gerald J. Russello reviews Imaginative Conservatism: The Letters of Russell Kirk, edited by James E. Person Jr.
The Dangerous War on Cops
Heather Mac Donald shows that proactive policing can make a dangerous city much less so; to forget those lessons is to go down a risky road.
Conservatives Can Win Debates and Elections by Showing How Their Policies Increase Happiness and Help Citizens
Arthur Brooks is a musician-turned-economist who, in his new book, The Conservative Heart makes the moral case for conservatism.
Roger Scruton, on the Heart of Conservatism
When a history of conservative thought (as opposed to the conservative “movement,” which perhaps already has its authoritative treatment in George Nash’s history, and many other studies) in the 20th ...
Liberalism Transformed
Liberalism has been transformed in the last 35 years. When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, his victory was attributed in large part to the “Reagan Democrats,” conservative white ethnics ...
A Conservative Call to Action
In their new book, The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport provide a bracing call to action for conservatives. Unfortunately, it misses ...
The Patron Saint of Detectives
The classic detective story is a morality play. Good, in the form of deductive reasoning and empirical observation, wins out over evil, at least to the extent of uncovering the ...
Rome’s Good Because It’s Bad
The most pro-Christian show on television doesn’t have a single Christian character in it — and it couldn’t have. Rome, the hit series now in its second season on HBO, ...
Wait, Senator
Obamania is in full swing. As John Podhoretz wrote recently in the New York Post, the junior senator from Illinois is the “Rorschach Candidate,” onto whom the electorate (or at ...