A collection of 21 posts
Getting oneself labelled ‘conservative’ in this country typically has little to do with ideology. It’s more about one’s willingness to state unpopular facts and break unspoken rules of political etiquette.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with author and satirist Andrew Doyle about the worrying rise of illiberal ideologies and cultish political tendencies among conservatives.
Many Canadian conservatives were warming to Donald Trump—until he threatened to destroy their economy with crippling tariffs.
The campaign to ban Critical Race Theory and other ‘woke’ dogmas channels the same illiberal spirit that conservatives claim to oppose.
The lead Bad Seed shares his thoughts on creativity, marriage, and having a conservative temperament.
Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.
Conservative anti-interventionists buy into an authoritarian narrative that ignores the clear choices made by the people of Ukraine.
The survival of the American Republic might just depend upon it.
A great many Americans held their noses to vote for Trump, whom they saw as the lesser evil.
Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.
Toby Young talks to Bruce Gilley, professor of political science at Portland State, about not being able to get his course on conservative political thought approved by his faculty, and his efforts to fight back against progressive authoritarianism on campus. He recently published a piece in Quillette about why he
National conservatives are much more willing to question the efficacy and desirability of markets in allocating a nation’s resources.
Toby Young discusses the conservative manifesto buried just beneath the surface of Avengers: Endgame with Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium. Aaron wrote an essay recently about the final instalment of the Avengers saga for Quillette.
If you haven’t seen Endgame yet—or if you take comfort in the delusion that Marvel is “woke”—stop reading now.
For instance, postmodern conservatives are reticent to trust rationalistic arguments made by cosmopolitan “elites” who stress that we have moral obligations to all individuals, regardless of where they come from.