There is a growing debate among conservative thinkers and pundits about whether Darwinian theory helps or harms conservatism and its public policy agenda. Some have argued forcefully that Darwin's theory provides support for conservative positions on family life, economics, bioethics, and other issues, while others have countered that the effort...

Edmund Burke is identified today as a conservative thinker--indeed, one of the greatest conservative thinkers--by his admirers. But his conservatism was more complicated and provocative than even conservatives appreciate. His Reflections on the Revolution in France, a searing indictment of the Revolution, brilliantly forecast the Reign of Terror that was...

For decades, intellectual politics and policy debates in the United States have been distorted by a strange residue of liberalism, reminding us of the movement's long dominance over U.S. politics. Many liberal and progressive thinkers assume, usually implicitly, that they alone have a monopoly on knowledge about cause-and-effect relationships in...

Sam Tanenhaus of The New York Times Book Review delivered the November Bradley Lecture.

Sam Tanenhaus will speak on the state of conservatism in the United States. In a lecture entitled “George W. Bush and the Future of Conservatism,” he will look back at the origins of the conservative movement...

This fall's election will be the most intense battle yet between conservatives and liberals for possession of America's political soul and over what defines American freedom.

Though midcentury political scientists craved greater ideological separation between the parties, many people now bemoan the increasingly polarization of the American political system, which leaves little room for those in the middle.

The essays in "The Neoconservative Persuasion" are a remarkable introduction to one of the few people who actually liked being called a neoconservative.

If a modern-day Aesop were to write a fable that illustrates the essential character of the American government, he could model it on the story of Peter Diamond.