It was Nash, Nelson said, who advanced an understanding of modern American conservatism as what came to be known in some quarters as a three-legged stool: an alliance of thinkers who had different ...

When conservatives and libertarians speak of "classical liberalism," they don't mean "liberal" in a left-wing or progressive ...

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 ...

Donald Trump spent his first term as the frustrated caretaker of the decaying Victorian mansion called the American conservative movement — floating plans to tear it down and build anew but mostly ...

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 ...

Curt Mills was an 11-year-old growing up in the D.C. suburbs when the 9/11 attacks rattled him rightward. He was 13 when he started reading the American Conservative, the magazine he now edits. During ...