Discover how accounting conservatism ensures accuracy by recording losses early and gains only when realized, promoting ...

Michael Oakeshott rooted conservatism in a disposition of gratitude, wizened by an awareness of scarcity. As the times change, so does conservatism: If the present is arid, offering little or nothing ...

Conservatism, it is alleged, was born in reaction against the efforts of ordinary people to gain some degree of political influence, economic justice, and social dignity against the brutal and ...

The modern conservative movement itself is very diverse as it relates to academic and grassroots conservatism. On the one hand, you have academic conservatives born out of the tradition of Edmund ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation,” Edmund Burke famously wrote in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). The philosophical founder of modern ...

A half-century ago, Sen. Barry Goldwater strode to the podium of the Republican National Convention in San Francisco to accept his party’s presidential nomination. He declared, “Extremism in the ...

In the face of progressives’ persistence in portraying contemporary conservatism as a mortal threat to American democracy, conservative intellectuals have launched the latest round in a learned and ...