Conservatives Have a New Master Theory of American Politics

The new theory sweeping the right, which held that radical leftists had conducted a “long march through the institutions,” seizing control of American culture, ...

How conservatives lost the institutions - Hypertext - Niskanen Center

The 2016 election of Donald Trump was cheered by conservative populists who viewed him as a formidable enemy of an entrenched ...

How a Conservative Activist's Crusade Led to Claudine Gay's ...

Christopher Rufo explains the motivations behind his latest crusade to topple the Harvard president.

Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets

They're not MAGA. They're not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.

The New Conservatism – HIS115 – US History Since 1870

Speaking to Detroit autoworkers in October of 1980, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan described what he saw as the American Dream under Democratic ...

After the “Master Theory”: Downs, Schattschneider, and the Rebirth ...

The Downsian approach dominated Fiorina's subfield of American politics, and it had outsized influence in much of comparative politics and political economy as ...

The new conservative dilemma - The New Criterion

These were some of the dilemmas that conservatives faced in that era as they worked toward a popular conservatism that might displace liberals from power while ...

How conservatives use 'verbal jiu-jitsu' to turn liberals' language ...

America's politics feels hopelessly deadlocked, but in one political arena, conservatives seem to win every battle: They have an uncanny ...

The Paranoid Style in American Politics, by Richard Hofstadter

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it—and its targets have ranged from “the international bankers” to Masons, Jesuits, ...

Project 2025 | The Heritage Foundation

With the Biden administration half over and with the immediate dangers inherent to one-party rule in Washington behind us for now, ...

Charting a new course for the future of American conservatism

The Kennedy School's Steve Goldsmith and UT-Austin's Ryan Streeter ask whether conservatives should embrace a more aspirational, ideas-driven future.

The Conservative Governing Disposition - National Affairs

Dispositional conservatives can and do disagree about the particulars of nearly every policy and political choice. But they are unified by their orientation to ...

Shifting Liberal and Conservative Attitudes Using Moral Foundations ...

We examine whether five moral foundations—harm, fairness, ingroup, authority, and purity—can influence political attitudes of liberals and conservatives across ...

Conservatism in the United States - Wikipedia

Conservative and Christian media organizations and American conservative figures are influential, and American conservatism is a large and mainstream ideology ...

How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the ...

When Trump failed to win re-election, some Claremonters accused Democrats of using the pandemic to unconstitutionally change election laws to ...

Postface. Has Conservatism a Future? - OpenEdition Journals

17 Michael Freeden, Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual Approach (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1 (...) 18 Edmund Neill, Conservatism, p. 11. 11The problem ...

Ten Conservative Principles | The Russell Kirk Center

Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata.

The Strict Father Is at the Core of Conservative Ideology and Values

Strict father morality applies to all the domains—individual liberty and self-interest, world power, business, and society ...

The Pillars of Modern American Conservatism

Over the past half century, conservatism has become the dominant political philosophy in the United States. Newspaper and television political ...

How the diploma divide transformed American politics

College-educated voters are moving toward the Democrats, with the less educated moving toward the Republicans.