The chaos of the past few weeks has revived the notion that Donald Trump’s rise was precipitated by the Democrats’ rough treatment of the Utah senator.

Is the Republican Party compatible with democracy?

The National Review has once again circled back to rejecting Trump, this time in favor of his disciples.

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

As they circle the wagons to justify the new law, conservative commentators fail to answer one simple question: Why does it exist?

Why it’s foolish to think the modern GOP will ever break with its lunatic fringe

On the “postliberal” future of the federal courts

Why conservative pundits are accusing Democrats of using the pandemic to “cancel” the holiday

With Covid-19 throttling the entertainment industry, basketball is caught in the crosshairs of the culture war.

The lockdown has produced a disparity between the old script of grievance and a sickness that can wreak destruction on anyone.

The soul of conservative America just might be found in a cartoon about a gang of vulgar little boys.

The American right’s doomed quest to rid itself of Trumpism

How the junior senator from Missouri has become the face of the post-liberal movement—and positioned himself as the philosophical heir to Trump.

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right

The unlikely, energizing friendship of Hugh Kenner and Guy Davenport

Ideological division was once seen as the solution to America’s political gridlock. What went wrong?

A historian writing in Politico says liberal historians ignorantly attribute too much racism to conservatives. Yet conservative historians ignore their movement's racism entirely.

What National Review's David French gets wrong in arguing that progressives have lost the high ground on sexual harassment and assault.