CATEGORY: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (6 min)
Western civilization faces a lot of threats today, from both without and within.
So naturally, many conservatives have defended it with their pens.
Three prominent contemporary thinkers in particular published popular books in this effort.
How effective are their arguments?
The Minds and Methods of Roger Scruton, Niall Ferguson, and Ben Shapiro
In this week’s Intercollegiate Review essay, Christian Alejandro Gonzalez compares these three popular defenses of Western civilization.
Which one do you think best gets the job done?
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CATEGORY: CULTURE (6 min)
You can learn a lot from past movements.
Take Reform Conservatism.
Reformocons saw the breakdown of family and civic community and proposed policies to defend both.
Unfortunately, they didn’t see a tsunami called “wokeness” on the horizon until it was too late.
What Happened to Reform Conservatism?
In National Review, Tanner Greer takes stock of Reform Conservatism and contrasts it with the experiences of young conservatives today.
Reformocons, he argues, were right in their diagnoses but vague on the alternatives.
And if conservatives can’t agree on what the “good life” looks like, they stand no chance against the hard vision offered by “woke” culture.
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CATEGORY: BIOGRAPHY (4 min)
M. Stanton Evans died five years ago this month.
He’s not well known today, but Evans was a leading voice of pre-Reagan conservatism, and the first to write a draft of its principles.
This stunning video reveals his life and legacy.
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