I got into a Facebook discussion with a reader who took me to task for using the categories “conservative” and “liberal” to talk about theology. We shouldn’t be using these polarized political terms ...

SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts — As a graduate student at Harvard University in the 1970s, George H. Nash was expected to write a dissertation that could become a book. He mulled writing on the Americans ...

Tim Miller sensed the Republican Party was changing well before the rise of the current president. As a former staffer and big supporter of the 2008 John McCain campaign, he watched as vice ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When President Donald Trump said, "The States are merely an 'agent' for ...

Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason, of which one makes us ardently interested in our ...

The term “conservative” means to me, as a noun or as an adjective, “to conserve” what is good from the past and what remains good in the present. A person, then, who is conservative in a political and ...

“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.” Those were the words of Nobel Prize-winning economist, Reagan adviser, and one of the sharpest defenders, of ...

Booker T. Washington has long been upheld as the original black conservative. In an 1896 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, he wrote that "the negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting." But ...

For the second time in the Trump presidency, the right is debating the concept of the common good and how that concept fits within the American political tradition.

Rereading a book of Roger Scruton’s, I came across this definition which is both sturdy but also shows its own date.

The paperback version came out in 1979, as Ronald Reagan had stepped onto the national stage. People were asking "What does it mean to be a conservative?" and while Nash offered no succinct definition ...

As Miller climbed the ranks of Republican campaign politics, relishing the competition, he witnessed the party shift from the pragmatic conservatism of the George W. Bush and McCain era to today's ...