Reading Boethius in the Trumpocene

The classics are neither self-help books nor sources of conservative propaganda

Reintroducing Ronald Dworkin

A leftist alternative to originalism is needed now more than ever

The Face of Christian Authoritarianism: Giving to Trump What Is Trump’s

How American Christianity moved from right-wing activism to outright idolatry in the Trump era.

Chris Rufo and the Great Liberal Threat

Rufo is the latest in a long line of conservatives who project their own victimhood to mobilize support.

Patrick Deneen Fails to Understand the Liberal Tradition

A review of Patrick Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.

Frankly Illiberal, Fukuyama

The esteemed political scientist and founding editor of American Purpose, Francis Fukuyama, has taken aim at woke liberalism, which he defines as “[interpreting inequality not as] between broad social classes like bourgeois and proletariat, but rather as the marginalization of narrower identity groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual

Russia's Rebels: An Interview with Linor Goralik of ROAR

An interview with the founder of the Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (ROAR)

A Canadian Perspective on Freedom and Gun Ownership in America

How the proliferation of guns in private life leads to draconian restrictions in public life

Why Movements Fail

Horizontalism and its discontents

America's Failure to Defend Liberalism Abroad

The US has failed to deliver on its promise of a rules based international order.

We Need to Build a Wall Around Windsor, Colorado

We must protect our culture from a reactionary community.

Against Activist Mission Creep

When organizations take positions on issues beyond their remit, they make it harder to build big tents around their own issues.