Richard M. Reinsch II
Heritage Foundation
Indiana, United States
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Willmoore Kendall’s American Affirmation
Many conservatives behave as if their job is merely to slow the advance of progressivism, or—at best—block it from gaining more ground. But according to Willmoore Kendall, this isn’t enough. They must work to extirpate progressive advances on the American constitutional order and replace them with sound political and moral principles. → Read More
A Politics Worthy of Man
What does it mean to defend freedom, truth, virtue, and the sacred in the age of modern democratic man? And what does democracy itself even mean now? → Read More
Making the Case for Markets
Samuel Gregg’s The Next American Economy tackles a dramatic question: What will the fundamentals of the American economy be a generation from now? → Read More
A Low but Solid Grounding for Religious Liberty
The Supreme Court put a formidable stake through the heart of 75 years’ worth of secularist jurisprudence with its recent decision in Carson v. Makin. Here, the Court—building on recent public aid decisions—held that a generally available school choice program cannot discriminate against religious schools that also feature religious instruction as part of the curriculum. → Read More
What the Constitution Can Give Us
American conservatism faces an array of difficult if not intractable challenges and problems. Progressives dictate revolutionary claims about gender, race, economics, and policing while dismissing American history as just racism, sexism, and homophobia. Moreover, they control the commanding heights of culture, education, social media, influential corporations, and the federal bureaucracy.… → Read More
What Is Our Peace?
Angelo Codevilla (1943-2021) loomed large over American conservative thought. A former naval officer, diplomat, and senior staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, he was the author of numerous books on conservative political thought and foreign policy, and translated an edition of Machiavelli’s The Prince, among other works. He was fiercely principled and independent. → Read More
Revolution Principles and American Conservatism Now
In Conservatism: A Rediscovery, Yoram Hazony aims to summon American conservatives from the somnambulant, rationalistic, and individualistic fate to which their ideas have inexorably led them. He argues that this depleted condition results from a fault in their reasoning about nature, namely, the notion that one can locate universal truth and articulate it as the sound basis of a nation’s… → Read More
Justice Is Never Enough
One of Amazon’s most successful streaming ventures continues to improve with age. Bosch is now Bosch Legacy, and you can find it on Freevee, a new ad-supported platform from Amazon. The show marvelously succeeds despite the awkward presentation of the new channel. This is high pulp L.A. → Read More
Exemplars for the West
Are the citizens of the democracies in the modern West still capable of believing in statesmanship? That may be the largest question hovering over Daniel Mahoney’s latest book, The Statesman as Thinker. → Read More
Recovering the American Proposition with Peter Augustine Lawler
Peter Augustine Lawler, who died five years ago next week, spent much of his career building a philosophical foundation for a school of thought he dubbed “Built Better Than They Knew Studies.” These studies center around the idea that, although America’s Founders knew their achievements to be remarkable, the philosophical sources of their political project were even greater and richer than they… → Read More
Can We Revive the Old Constitution?
Two common proclamations currently dominate conservative thinking: (1) We are governed by runaway bureaucrats with no accountability to the people, and (2) We are governed by a Congress that refuses to legislate in any regular capacity, even refusing to deliberate in committee and vote on a federal budget on a department-by-department basis. Both statements are true and are routinely voiced by… → Read More
The American People Must Relocate Power to the States
When American citizens look to Washington, D.C., they find much to be disappointed in and even less to believe in. The fundamental problem is that the federal government has, through its regulatory and spending powers, usurped much of the governing authority for the republic. → Read More
Dobbs Opinion, If It Stands, Rights Supreme Court’s Wrong
The now infamous draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, leaked Monday, will overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in a rich, bold, and comprehensive manner. → Read More
What’s Old Is New: The Right Against God and Man
In the introduction to A World After Liberalism, Matthew Rose observes that the most provocative thinkers on the right now contest liberalism, individualism, and autonomy. He argues: “We are living in a postliberal moment. After three decades of dominance, liberalism is losing its hold on Western minds. → Read More
Are Law Schools Now Woke Factories?
Students at three recent college events threatened violence against conservative speakers, along with the student groups that invited them to speak on campus. This may be commonplace today, but what makes this hostility so much more shocking is that it occurred at colleges once considered eminent law schools: Georgetown University Law Center, Hastings College of Law at the University of… → Read More
Are Law Schools Now Woke Factories?
Students at once-prestigious law schools have threatened violence against conservative speakers and student groups. → Read More
Jobs, Family, Loyalty: Identifying the Governing Vision of National Conservatives
The American conservative movement long has been a raucous conversation among groups with different purposes, objects, and frameworks in which they approach politics and culture. Now, the strain known as national conservatism means to join that conversation. → Read More
Finding the Constitution’s Common Good
Conservatives of all stripes, including the increasingly large number of former liberals who have been mugged by educational intolerance, critical race theory, and transgender ideology, should welcome a public conversation that is rooted in a politics and constitutionalism of the common good. → Read More
Jobs, Family, Loyalty: What Is Governing Vision of National Conservatives?
National conservatism joins the raucous conversation about American politics and culture. → Read More
Fight for the Right
Since its postwar rise, the American conservative movement has staked its reputation on defending the free market as an abiding principle. Conservatives pointed to the liftoff in the American economy caused by the Reagan tax revolution and the deregulation of heavily controlled parts of the economy. Less government and less regulation were better for the American economy. The left disagreed with… → Read More