Liberalism

The Whig Case for Toryism

American conservatives can learn from our Tory forerunners the importance of reverence and order, realism and romance, and ultimately the poetry that is the soul of our civilization

“Something Dangerous and Threatening to Virtue:” Abolitionism and British Nationalism

The solidification of British national identity around Protestant piety, liberty, empire, and commerce played a significant yet under-discussed role in abolishing slavery

T.S. Eliot and the Need for Lent

As the season of Lent begins, T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” provides ever-relevant lessons for overcoming spiritual lassitude characteristic of modernity

Reformed Protestantism: The Progenitor of Modern Political Thought

Paul DeHart’s new book, “Contract in the Ruins: Natural Law and Government by Consent,” argues that what we today call “liberalism” cannot be understood in isolation from natural law and the Protestant Reformation

“Digital Cliques in Search of Political Power”: A Review of Kevin Vallier’s All The Kingdoms of the World

Although integralism specifically and postliberalism generally seem to be declining as philosophical projects, Kevin Vallier’s “All the Kingdoms of the World” still urges us to ask why these ideas were so popular in the first place

Robert Kagan’s “Antiliberalism” Gives Christianity All the Blame and None of the Credit for American Exceptionalism

Robert Kagan’s new book mistakenly argues that everything bad in America comes from religion and everything good from the Enlightenment

These Are Not Barbarians

Westerners must reckon with the fact that Islamic terrorists are not outliers but instead have broad support across the global Muslim community

Republican Toryism in America

American conservatives would benefit from reading Ron Dart’s recent work, “The North American High Tory Tradition”

Rising Individualism, Declining Western Civilization

Tory MP Danny Kruger sketches a philosophy of history that laments the West’s lost sense of deep community without romanticizing the past