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Who We Are
Americans didn’t always think of themselves as conservatives. ... “Conservative” was a label for the backward and authoritarian, the most hidebound elements of Old Europe (read more).
‘Grace’ Beyond Saving
A new Broadway play features Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, but some shallow theology.
Asian-American Quotas in the Ivy League?
The New York Times takes on the myth of meritocracy in higher education.
How Leviathan Ate the GOP
Republicans didn’t resist big government–and now they can’t stop it.
The Torture Chronicle
A classified Senate Intelligence Committee report shows the futility of “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Bork and the Evolution of American Conservatism
Reflecting on the rejected Supreme Court nominee’s complicated legacy
The Right Way to Fix Copyright
A conservative blueprint for intellectual-property reform
A Burkean Affair
The new Danish film sheds light on 18th-century historical lessons.
Chuck Hagel & GOP Foreign Policy
What will it take for Republicans to reclaim moderate internationalism?
The Next Ron Paul?
Rep. Justin Amash takes on John Boehner and the “old GOP.”
Guns, Risks, and Safety
Thoughts on Newtown and the trouble with the “More Guns” approach
Close Encounter
The last days of the Cold War’s greatest journal
Capitalist Cure
How to save the free market from big business and big government
What America Can Learn from Kutusov
From education to decentralization, the Russian who beat Napoleon teaches victory by retreat.
Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species
The problem with this unimaginative “vision stuff”
Foreign Policy and the American Mind
Democracy veers toward hubris and absolutism.
TAC CLASSICS
Defining Conservatism Down
As the Right’s popularity has grown, its intellectual challenge to the Left has diminished.
Rod Dreher
Glenn Beck Is Pro Gay Marriage
Rod Dreher
Why Don’t Men Come To Church?
Rod Dreher
This Wicked World
Rod Dreher
Does The Law Love An Ass?