Columns originally published in Newsweek and the Washington Post which deal with human nature and contemporary American life and politics.

The ascendancy of conservatism in the last twenty years is an unprecedented episode in American intellectual and political history. In Watch on the Right, J. Da

During the 1970s, the United States became the world's preeminent postindustrial society. The new conditions changed the way Americans lived and worked, and eve

A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism When most people think of the history of modern conservatism, they think of Rona

Calls for greater morality in government and among politicians are a fixture of American political culture. Although there is no lack of opinion on what politic