James Vitali
Jun 13, 2022
Conservatism as a Political Tradition
‘The last thing conservatives believe is that they have the monopoly of the truth. They do not even claim the monopoly of conservatism’....
Emeline McClellan
Jun 9, 2022
The Content of Conservatism
Conservatism isn’t pragmatic. At least, not in any special sense. All politics involves pragmatism, of course, with leaders on both sides...
Zachary Marsh
Jun 3, 2022
What ‘Conservatives’ Need to Understand About Conservativism
How many times have you heard an iteration of the phrase ‘that’s not very conservative’? The Right’s favourite new past time, it seems,...
Emeline McClellan
Jun 2, 2022
Dizzy's Tory Party
Book Review Hurd, Douglas and Edward Young. 2013. Disraeli: or, The Two Lives. Phoenix. 372 pgs. As an American Republican, I admit that...
John Smith
Jun 1, 2022
Joe Biden Is Not a Radical, He’s Just an OAP. It’s His Vice-President We Should Be Worried About
A recent article published by one of our colleagues makes a great deal of the notion that in ‘smiling like your grandfather’ Biden is...
Bibitor Portugallensis
May 27, 2022
The Cambridge Column: A First Installment
‘Meat? At a vegan formal? Who would dare such a thing? The fellows? While the members of the JCR participated in a JCR-planned event? The...
Emeline McClellan
May 26, 2022
How Radical is Joe Biden?
Some people say Joe Biden is a moderate, but I’m not convinced. It’s true that Biden doesn’t fit the radical mould. He doesn’t have...
Thomas Brian
May 24, 2022
Notes From a Paris Correspondent
‘Moi? J’adore l’Angleterre!’ said the Algerian, the newest friend I’d made that evening. ‘Le coup mondiale,’ vacations in Dubrovnik,...
Emeline McClellan
May 17, 2022
Is Politics Dirty?
Five years ago, I liked to call politics ‘the dirtiest intellectual endeavour.’ I used to wonder how my friends could discuss Donald...
Penelope Perkins
May 10, 2022
Why We Should All Love America
Hayward, Steven F. 2022. M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom. Encounter Books. 400 pgs. Since coming to England, I’ve...
