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Left or Right, Politicians Shouldn’t Be Telling Academics What They’re Allowed to Teach

The campaign to ban Critical Race Theory and other ‘woke’ dogmas channels the same illiberal spirit that conservatives claim to oppose.

Michael Shermer

21 Feb 2023 · 7 min read

Nick Cave: “Conservatism Is an Aspiration”

The lead Bad Seed shares his thoughts on creativity, marriage, and having a conservative temperament.

Claire Lehmann

13 Feb 2023 · 13 min read

On Conservative Socialism

Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.

Seamus Flaherty

27 Dec 2022 · 16 min read

Ukrainians Are Nobody’s Pawns

Conservative anti-interventionists buy into an authoritarian narrative that ignores the clear choices made by the people of Ukraine.

Robert Tracinski

19 Apr 2022 · 8 min read

A Return to Tradition: Creating a Post-Trump Conservatism

The survival of the American Republic might just depend upon it.

Bo Winegard

25 Jan 2021 · 14 min read

Return of the Strong Gods: Understanding the New Right

A great many Americans held their noses to vote for Trump, whom they saw as the lesser evil.

Jordan Alexander Hill

3 Jan 2021 · 20 min read

PODCAST 71: Daniel Hannan talks about the late Sir Roger Scruton

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.

Quillette / Toby Young

13 Jan 2020 · 1 min read

PODCAST 48: Professor Bruce Gilley on Anti-Conservative Bias on Campus

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

Quillette / Toby Young

7 Aug 2019 · 1 min read

National Conservatism and the Preference for State Control

National conservatives are much more willing to question the efficacy and desirability of markets in allocating a nation’s resources.

Alexander William Salter

31 Jul 2019 · 6 min read

Quillette Podcast 38 – Jonah Goldberg and Aaron Siberium on the conservative themes of Avengers: Endgame

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.

Quillette / Toby Young

19 Jun 2019 · 1 min read

The Conservative Manifesto Buried in 'Avengers: Endgame'

If you haven’t seen Endgame yet—or if you take comfort in the delusion that Marvel is “woke”—stop reading now.

Aaron Sibarium

14 Jun 2019 · 10 min read

Michael Oakeshott and the Intellectual Roots of Postmodern Conservatism

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.

Matt McManus

25 May 2019 · 10 min read

The Dearth of Conservatives in Academic Philosophy

Without a healthy mix of a conservative and liberal center, the poles of left and right are much more likely to tilt toward the extremes.

Tristan Rogers

23 Apr 2019 · 8 min read

Charlie Kirk's Campus Battlefield—A Review

Those curious about the next cohorts of conservatives—right-leaning students currently being reared in the age of Trump—should begin with Kirk.

Grant Addison

11 Nov 2018 · 13 min read

From Party of Ideas to Party of Dittoheads

Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.

Max Boot

15 Oct 2018 · 10 min read