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June 1, 2026June 23, 2026Reviews

Middle America’s Jurist

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In ‘Alito,’ Mollie Hemingway describes the formation and explains the thought of Middle America’s voice on the high court: Justice Samuel Alito.

National Review, Eugene O’Neill, Jr., Fusionism, The Road to Serfdom, Earl Browder, Frank Meyer,
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Reviews

Frank the Fusioneer

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Daniel J. Flynn argues that Frank Meyer brought a lot more to the conservative table than musings about "fusionism." Meyer built the movement's infrastructure.

A Court of Thorns and Roses, , Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, C. S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, J. K. Rowling,
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Reviews

Grimdark Gets A Heart

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George R. R. Martin's 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' brings back many of the admirable attributes of old-school fantasy fiction.

Sam Tanenhaus, William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan, conservatism, Firing Line, Up From Liberalism, Iraq War, National Review,
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February 1, 2026February 2, 2026Reviews

Our Boy Bill

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Sam Tanenhaus's mammoth biography of Bill Buckley reveals new stories, but it doesn't locate the core of the man's conservatism or where he wanted the movement to go.

The Death of the West, Life Without Father,
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December 1, 2025June 12, 2026Reviews

What We Are Reading: December 2025

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When Patrick Buchanan’s 2000 Reform Party presidential campaign ended in failure, National Review mocked the end of a “glorious career.” Not so fast. A new phase of that career—that of a best-selling author—was just beginning. Two years later, Buchanan published his blockbuster The Death of the West, which sat atop of bestseller lists for months....

‘Jim Snow’ Has Begun to Melt
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December 1, 2025December 19, 2025Reviews

‘Jim Snow’ Has Begun to Melt

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There are increasing signs that the era of white guilt and socially approved racism against whites is at an end. The publication of Jason Riley's 'The Affirmative Action Myth' is one such sign.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Russell Kirk, Robert Nisbet, Julius Evola, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler,
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December 1, 2025December 1, 2025Reviews

Aristocracy: What Is It Good For?

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'Aristocratic Voices' explores the aristocratic side of conservative thought, through a variety of unconventional figures who defended traditional social elites and criticized democratic equality.

Some Are More Equal than Others
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November 1, 2025November 19, 2025Reviews

Some Are More Equal than Others

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Economists of the left, such as Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, push utopian egalitarianism based on the premise that inequality is a social ill, rather than a universal feature of human society.