Michael Oakeshott rooted conservatism in a disposition of gratitude, wizened by an awareness of scarcity. As the times change, so does conservatism: If the present is arid, offering little or nothing ...

Conservatism, it is alleged, was born in reaction against the efforts of ordinary people to gain some degree of political influence, economic justice, and social dignity against the brutal and ...

Conservatism in the United States has slowly but steadily been on the decline for years, and while it has made some legitimate — and at times not so legitimate — attempts to revive itself, it has ...

When conservatism was a dirty word it seemed gallantly non-conformist to defend it against the big, smug liberal majority among one’s fellow writers and professors. But in the mood emerging from the ...

I think most liberals are probably familiar with what has become known as Wilhoit’s Law – that the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control. This is how composer Frank ...

Nearly half of Americans admitted to pollsters that they believe they are “at risk” of contracting Ebola. The effects of the virus go beyond our collective psyche. According to The New Republic’s ...

As conservatism takes its new shape in the face of President Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party, old alliances have been fractured, and multiple fights have broken out about what conservatism ...

Is it possible to have a conservative nationalism that isn’t white nationalism? Even national conservatives don’t seem to know. The weekend of July 19 marked the first National Conservative Conference ...

Burke’s statement perfectly encapsulates the earliest notion of what we now understand to be conservatism. The political philosophy has since spread its wings in many different directions over the ...

Douglas Blair is a contributor to The Daily Signal. Conservatism has existed as a philosophy since the founding of the republic. As the country has evolved and grown, so too has the political ideology ...

The Conservative Political Action Conference, better known as CPAC, falls every year around my birthday. In fact, I turned many of my 20s and 30s while nerding out at the Omni Shoreham hotel in ...

The American conservative movement is at a crossroads. Will it continue to stand for a free market economy, limited government and the rule of law? Or will it pick up a nationalist populist agenda of ...