Neoconservatism

President Trump Is Right About Syria… Even if He’s Wrong

President Trump’s decision to withdraw American troops from Syria, if it holds, is one of the few genuinely courageous acts of his presidency... My first thought when I heard that President Trump was finally taking our troops...

Suicide of the West: James Burnham vs. Jonah Goldberg

The nation-state, along with a broadly Christian culture, has always been the surest foundation for a classically liberal order. America’s ideals depend not on tribal loyalty to universal propositions but on loyalty to the tribes—and little platoons—from which our ideals arise...

How Neoconservatives Destroyed Southern Conservatism

Neither the leftist Marxist multiculturalists nor the Neoconservatives reflect the genuine beliefs or inheritance left to us by those who came to these shores centuries ago. Both reject the historic conservatism of the South, which embodied that inheritance and the vision of the Founders...

On Straussian Teachings

The nexus between the Straussians and neoconservatives has been overstated for partisan ends, but it is still nonetheless there. Sociologically and culturally, the two movements are largely indistinguishable... The Truth About Leo Strauss by Catherine and Michael Zuckert (University of Chicago Press, 2006).

Whither “Nevertrump”?

Given the hysteria of so many, it may seem surprising to note that what Donald Trump promised was a return to political sanity. If not a full-scale conservative program, Mr. Trump's is a crucial program for the preservation and possible renewal of the American way of life...

Who Still Speaks for Conservatism?

Listening to George Will pontificate recently on Fox News about his “conservative” principles, I had to ask for the millionth time what Mr. Will and his likeminded friends mean by “conservative.” And I don’t...

Neoconservatives, #Nevertrump, & the Death of Conservatism

Neoconservatives have garnered a fair amount of media coverage in recent weeks for their determination to keep on with the #nevertrump fight. Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard and son of neoconservative founder Irving Kristol, has been...

Neoconservatism, Vigilantism, and Batman

They're all around us No one will look you in the eye You don't know who to trust I'm looking around me And don't like what I see Corruption all around me cause these, These are the signs of the times    ...

Claes Ryn on The New Jacobinism

Imaginative Conservative senior contributor, Claes Ryn, recently discussed the pernicious influence of neo-conservatism—or the "New Jacobinism"—on the American republic. Click below to watch parts one and two of this...

Ukraine and the Neoconservatives Who Wrecked Reagan’s Peace

"Just suppose with me for a moment,” intoned President Ronald Reagan in the midst of the Cold War, “that an Ivan and an Anya could find themselves, oh, say, in a waiting room,...

Crusades for Democracy & American Foreign Policy

In recent years a heated debate has erupted about American foreign policy and about what moral purpose should inform our conduct of international relations. While analysts Robert Kagan, Michael Mandelbaum, and Stephen Schwartz insist the United States...

A Marriage of Personal Convenience: The Unity of Economic and Social Conservatism

Over on the First Things blog, Robert George has blessed us, yet again, with the conventional and convenient wisdom of (Catholic) neoconservatism. The post, titled “No Mere Marriage of Convenience: The Unity of Economic and...

A NeoCon Night at the Opera

(WARNING: Contains Neo-Conservatism and saucy language) Well, here’s a big buon giorno to our National Public Radio audience, because it’s time for Impariamo Opera and I’m your co-host, Angela Tedioso. And I’m Hans-Dieter Langweilig....

Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea

From the “Introduction” to Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, by C. Bradley Thompson (with Yaron Brook). Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea is unique because it is the first and only book to...