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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?

It's important to remember the thoughts, words, and deeds of other great Founders who contributed to a young Republic...

Peter Lawler's "postmodern conservatism" was a call to think creatively while avoiding stereotyped presuppositions.

The links between the Intellectual Dark Web and the established right are likely to strengthen in the coming years. Is that good or bad?

 Michael Walzer argues that the American left should not stick to its “default” position of standoffish withdrawal from world affairs. Will the left listen?

Gorbachev was never able to reconcile his liberal leanings with the Marxist-Leninist communism he publicly professed and apparently believed in privately. Scholars still debate whether this was a good thing or bad.

Former neocon Max Boot is burning down the house he once lived in. will his new liberal friends make room for him in theirs?