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Is the cost of unleashing Donald Trump on the enemies of forgotten Americans proving too high for the GOP?

When James Poulos met Marilyn Manson in the restroom of the Chateau Marmont, the conversation turned to writer Bret Easton Ellis. Heroes aren't what they used to be.

How Leo Strauss influenced Ben Shapiro's book, The Right Side of History, and why conservatives should care

Are economic gains worth the cultural cost? Let's find out.

America and the West need a new Berlin Wall moment, not to tear down a symbol of political oppression but to throw out the ideological baggage of an earlier time

Krzysztof Kieślowski’s now-classic film trilogy has much to say about the fraught relationship between personal identities and a commerce-driven, transnational State

Michael Brendan Dougherty’s memoir is a reflection on how exploring his Irish roots influenced his views on America, nationalism, and an abiding sense of abandonment

Sienkiewicz’s lessons have broader applications that are distinctly suited to contemporary conservative thought.

It took a polymath of the Western soul to produce Russell Kirk's masterpiece—and that's just what Kirk was.

How Russell and Annette Kirk's unlikely marriage became a powerful force in American conservatism

Sohrab Ahmari's spiritual autobiography leaves the reader impressed with the author as a writer and a spiritual thinker. It also raises questions about a potential sequel.

Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club is a history of ideas, or as he characterizes it in the subtitle, A Story of Ideas in America. The subtitle suggests a humility presumably lost on a previous generation of writers, those who half a century ago...

A controversial historian has called the idea of the Holocaust as the ultimate in human evil a religion-like “myth.” Will a new caste of priests preserve its inviolability?