It now seems hard to believe, but there was a time when Americans did not often use the term “conservative.” The great Harvard political theorist Louis Hartz even went so far as to argue that in ...

These days, many on the right are itching for revolution. Eager to dispense with what they believe is a hidebound conservatism that promoted restraint and narrow ideals at the cost of broader cultural ...

The American political system is unique: a system built in pursuit of deadlock rather than “progress,” a system that fully understands human nature and proactively defends against it, and a system ...

The widening ideological rift today between liberals and conservatives is obvious. But the more subtle differences between different schools of thought within parties can be harder to parse. While the ...

Mr. Mount is a political commentator and a former columnist for The Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. He wrote from London. Sept. 26, 2024 The British Conservative Party has long boasted of being ...