The civil war among conservatives that began with Tucker Carlsonโs interview of Nick Fuentes isnโt over yet. At the Heritage Foundation in December, Ben Shapiro gave a fiery speech taking on the decision of foundation president Kevin Roberts to defend continued partnership with Carlson. Just before Christmas, at TPUSAโs Freedom Fest, Vice President J.D. Vance…
With the initial successes of President Trumpโs second term, American conservatism is at a crossroads. The philosophical fractures and schisms among American conservatives are in significant ways not new. Questions about the purposes and proper ends of political society, the meaning of freedom and justice, and the place of order and authority remain as vital…
For all the laments over the failures of Americans to take on the demands of civic republicanism and to know their founding documents the way our forebears did, Americans still routinely reach to constitutional text and precedent to understand the most pressing political issues of our time. In the social media era, observers can see…
70 years ago, in the halls of Congress, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin met an ignoble public close to his years-long efforts to investigate and excavate the threat of Communism from the American State Department. In the subsequent years and decades, few would remember individual cases, especially the ones where history proved McCarthy right. But…
In his first annual address in January 1790, George Washington highlighted one of the most consequential themes in American politics: the necessity of a knowledgeable, virtuous people. As Washington stated: Answering Washingtonโs call for civic education, Johnny Burtka IV, president and CEO of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), has published Gateway to Statesmanship as a…