Individuals with high intellectual ability frequently occupy leadership roles across business, science, and politics. To date ...

The preeminent intellectual of the conservative movement was being outflanked to his right by the John Birch Society. Founded just three years earlier, the group had grown to tens of thousands of ...

In these pages I recently wrote about the importance of Kentucky’s recently adopted House Bill 4, which prohibits various forms of discrimination and indoctrination in the state’s public universities.

“I was writing at a time when conservatism was commonly thought of as synonymous with the John Birch Society, weirdos, and so on. The existing, scholarly literature about conservatism, such as it was, ...

MAGA might seem like an anti-intellectual movement, but conservatism’s past and present thinkers are deeply complicit in it.

The Salient is back, and it’s better than ever. Last September, I published an article lamenting the state of conservatism at Harvard and in public discourse. The Harvard Salient, I argued, had come ...

Nash’s 1976 book, “The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945,” changed that. Originally published by Basic Books, it has been described by Regnery Press as “the unquestioned ...