Why Goldwater Ran
The following is an excerpt from Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution. Barry Goldwater, an ardent and popular conservative, knew that, by 1963, the country was weary of liberal ideology, yet...
View ArticleA Plea Regarding “Liberal”
This essay appears in the Summer 2015 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe, go here. You can read the responses by John Zmirak and Charles C.W. Cooke. You can also read Klein’s final response to his...
View ArticleChurches and Skyscrapers: Why We Need Both God and Ayn Rand
Ask random people what they think a “conservative” looks like. Half the respondents will no doubt describe a clean-cut, well-dressed, and very stuffy man with a briefcase, traveling up the elevator of...
View ArticleOffice Hours: What Six Students Asked an ISI Professor
Image by Marcus Spiske via Pixabay. Wilfred M. McClay is a distinguished ISI professor and serves as a faculty adviser for OU’s ISI Society. Here he answers questions by six students on a range of...
View ArticleThe Unexpected Conservative: Henry David Thoreau
Is there an important conservative thinker who isn’t well known? One would guess that by now anyone that has had any impact at all is not unknown to us. But then I thought of Henry David Thoreau,...
View ArticleHave You Read “The Federalist Papers of American Conservatism”?
The following is adapted from Jonah Goldberg’s foreword to the brand-new edition of What Is Conservatism? This classic 1964 book, featuring essays by F. A. Hayek, William F. Buckley Jr., Russell Kirk,...
View ArticleOnly Half in Fun: William F. Buckley’s NYC Mayoral Campaign, 50 Years Later
The following essay appears in the Fall 2015 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe, go here. Clare Boothe Luce, with only a tinge of hyperbole, referred to the 1965 version of New York City as “the...
View ArticleThe Unmaking of a Mayor
The following is the prologue from William F. Buckley’s now-classic memoir of his campaign for mayor of New York City, The Unmaking of a Mayor, just reissued in a fiftieth-anniversary “deluxe...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Richard A. Ware (1919–2015)
Richard A. Ware (second from left) receiving ISI’s Charles A. Hoeflich Lifetime Achievement Award This morning Richard A. Ware passed away at the age of ninety-five. It was with great sadness that ISI...
View ArticleGratitude Is at the Heart of Conservatism
Image by Jocelyn Maloney via Unsplash. A little-known fact is that gratitude is at the heart of conservatism. Here is a brief excerpt from Yuval Levin’s illuminative essay “The Roots of a Reforming...
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