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 ...

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 ...

Discover how accounting conservatism ensures accuracy by recording losses early and gains only when realized, promoting ...

Gore Vidal took a British television interviewer by surprise in 2012 when he remarked, “When you foreigners hear the word ‘conservative,’ you think of kindly old men hunting foxes. They’re not.

IN THE 1980s Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher built a new conservatism around markets and freedom. Today Donald Trump, Viktor Orban and a motley crew of Western politicians have demolished that ...

The Trump administration has launched a counterrevolution in American culture and government. As much as the credit for this sudden and dramatic reversal belongs to the president, it is further being ...

In today's post, I will present a general theory of liberalism and conservatism that incorporates modern social science research. I will begin with examples of liberal and conservative attitudes in ...

The many tributes pouring in honoring Ed Feulner—founder, trustee, and longest-serving president of the Heritage Foundation—are both fitting and deeply meaningful to those of us who wake up every day ...

Conservatism is in decline. True, it’s not dead — in 2025, a larger share of Americans described themselves as conservative (35%) than liberal (28%) — but this seven-point difference is the smallest ...