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We asked some of our favorite writers to select their ideal presidential candidate—from fiction or history. The results will definitely surprise.

Martin Buber's unique vision of a cultural Zionism and an I-Thou Judaism was sparked by the man who declaimed "God is dead."

Karl Marx didn't inspire today’s malefactors—human nature did. Radicals are driven by instincts that Burke understood well.

  You grew up thinking that your life was small, And right and wrong were words like sweet and sour, And sunset light on brownstones in the Fall –That half-nostalgic joy of cocktail hour; Desire for what you couldn’t quite recall— Was a trick of...

Conservatives today are reasoning from entirely different moral premises. Is unity possible?

The prudence of Lincoln and Burke is sorely needed when both conservatives and liberals employ the strident language of war in the service of all-or-nothing political objectives.

Maybe facts don't care about your feelings, but the father of Anglo-American conservatism did.

Is the U.S. Constitution the controlling law of the land, or are civil rights statutes? And which has the last word when they conflict? Christopher Caldwell's new book lays out the often-confusing rules of engagement.

What does the "common good" look like today? Find out with beloved professor and leading intellectual Robert P. George during this webinar.

The great British statesman looks at the “once triumphant Trotsky, . . . now washed up in the Gulf of Mexico.”

There's no such thing as objective journalism. Here's how to tell readers what they don't know and offer fair analysis, as a true columnist should.

Tom Wolfe described the untamed character of America, and the inadequacy of the nation’s liberal elite, better than anyone—and we need his vision more than ever.

Decline or stagnation? What's the word for what our country, our culture, our civilization is undergoing? Ross Douthat’s new book parses the vocabulary of decadence.

It’s no surprise that many Americans distrust institutions that are essential in a free society. Yuval Levin offers a way back from atomization, alienation, and anarchy.

Trauma often casts memory into a "universe of oblivion," Bosnian author Aleksandar Hemon writes. How does one re-create what has been annihilated?