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Mike Pence is teaching at Grove City College

John Fea   |  March 5, 2025

I was at the western Pennsylvania college a couple weeks ago and I didn’t see the former vice-president. But as Jim Martin reports at the Erie Times-News, Pence is teaching at Grove City College, a school that calls itself a […]

David Brooks: “How the Elite rigged Society”

John Fea   |  February 21, 2025

A lot to think about here:

The Author’s Corner with Mark A. Neels

Rachel Petroziello   |  December 20, 2024

Mark A. Neels is a History Teacher at Chaminade College Preparatory School. This interview is based on his new book, Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor: Attorney General Edward Bates (Southern Illinois University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor? […]

Wehner: “The strongest case for voting for Harris doesn’t have nearly as much to do with her as it has to do with Trump”

John Fea   |  October 31, 2024

Over at The Atlantic, Peter Wehner worries about the future of conservativism if Trump wins: The strongest case for voting for Harris doesn’t have nearly as much to do with her as it has to do with her opponent. Trump remains […]

The Author’s Corner with Ian T. Iverson

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 28, 2024

Ian T. Iverson is Associate Editor of the John Dickinson Writings Project. This interview is based on his new book, Holding the Political Center in Illinois: Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War (Kent State University Press, […]

Some conservatives cringe whenever the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” is mentioned

John Fea   |  September 14, 2024

If you don’t want to read Project 2025, we summarized the key themes in our coverage of the Heritage Foundation’s “Policy Fest” at the Republican National Convention in July. Here is Michael Schaffer at Politico: Whenever Vice President Kamala Harris […]

Are we past “peak woke?” Nope. Just look at some conservatives.

John Fea   |  July 24, 2024

Tyler Austin Harper argues that “wokeness” is as much about form as it is content. When it comes to form, many conservatives appear to be just as “woke” as the progressive reactionaries they despise. Here is a taste of Harper’s […]

Albert Mohler: “I want to maximize the Christian commitments of the state, the civilization”

John Fea   |  July 9, 2024

The National Conservatives are meeting this week in Washington D.C. Speakers include Stephen Miller (Trump immigration adviser), John Eastman (indicted lawyer who tried to help Trump steal the 2020 election), Walter Russell Mead (Bard College), Megan Basham (MAGA writer), R.R. […]

The Trump intellectuals

John Fea   |  July 5, 2024

Many of them gather at the Claremont Institute in Southern California. Here is a taste of Ruth Graham’s New York Times piece, “Why a New Conservative Brain Trust is Resettling Across America”: The Claremont Institute has been located in Southern […]

Where are the conservatives and pluralists in higher education?

John Fea   |  July 3, 2024

Steve Teles, a political scientist at The Johns Hopkins University, writes: “The university’s ideological narrowing has advanced so far that even liberal institutionalists–faculty who believe universities should be places of intellectual pluralism and adhere to the traditional academic norms of […]

What is Project 2025?

John Fea   |  July 3, 2024

In Steve Bannon’s recent interview with David Brooks, Bannon referenced something called Project 2025. What is Project 2025? James Goodwin explains at Boston Review. Here is a taste: The week after taking office in 2017, Donald Trump announced his administration’s […]

If you want to get a sense of the state of conservative Christianity in America, check out the responses to David French’s recent New York Times piece

John Fea   |  June 11, 2024

On Sunday we covered David French’s New York Times piece on getting canceled–literally canceled–by his former church, the Presbyterian Church in America. In that piece, we included some survey data I collected back in 2020 about how Trump, politics generally, […]

Harvey Mansfield and conservatism at Harvard

John Fea   |  June 3, 2024

The 92-year-old political philosopher retired from Harvard’s government department last year. His students include Tom Cotton, Andrew Sullivan, Alan Keyes, Bill Kristol, Mark Lilla, and Francis Fukuyama. Mansfield recently talked with Tunku Varadarajan about progressivism, liberalism, and conservatism at Harvard. […]

Is Oklahoma senator James Lankford conspiratorial enough for The Federalist?

John Fea   |  December 5, 2023

Preview in new tab Here is The Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway, the daughter of a Missouri-Synod Lutheran minister. Career Democrat and ABC host George Stephanopoulos completely emasculated Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma this weekend on his Sunday show. Right at […]

The Author’s Corner with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 20, 2023

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is an instructor at the University of New Orleans and an IUPUI-SUSIH Community Scholar. This interview is based on her new book, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America (University of North […]

Ross Douthat: A Christian conservative who lives among liberals and writes for them

John Fea   |  September 12, 2023

Here is Isaac Chotiner at The New Yorker: “Douthat is highly skilled at addressing liberal Times readers in a manner that makes clear he is not one of them, without allowing them to think that he actually holds views—about Donald Trump, say, […]

A right-wing intellectual takes on capitalism. Some socialists are fine with it.

John Fea   |  August 22, 2023

Some of you may know the name Sohrab Ahmari from his 2019 argument with David French over the meaning of conservatism. Since that debate, Amari has co-founded Compact, a journal critical of liberalism of both the left and the right […]

Chris Rufo: “Intellectual historian” or “intellectual bully”?

John Fea   |  August 8, 2023

Chris Rufo is a conservative activist whose claim to fame is an appearance on the old Tucker Carlson show on Fox News. That appearance caught the attention of then president Donald Trump. Since then, Rufo has become Ron DeSantis’s point […]

DeSantis’s anti-LGBTQ ad is hateful and strange. It is also politically smart and savvy

John Fea   |  July 10, 2023

Fasten your seat belt. Here it the ad: Here is conservative New York Times columnist Brett Stephens on the DeSantis ad: “I guess my main takeaway is that DeSantis isn’t going to be the next president. He makes Trump seem […]

Nikki Haley is running as a common sense conservative in a political party that has abandoned common sense

John Fea   |  June 25, 2023

Former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley was in Washington D.C. yesterday to speak to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference. Her walkout music was Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” Watch: Like some of the […]

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