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Conservatism

A Matter of Life

by Mary Cuddehe,

The death penalty as a conservative conundrum

The Ideology of Isolation

If you boil the strange soup of contemporary right-wing ideology down to a sort of bouillon cube, you find the idea that things are not connected to other things, that…

Front Runner

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Marine Le Pen’s campaign to make France great again

Political Correction

by Osita Nwanevu,

By Osita Nwanevu. Nwanevu is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and the editor of the South Side Weekly.

The Nixon of the North

by Heather Mallick,

How Stephen Harper ruined Canada

Green Old Party

by Ralph Nader,

By Ralph Nader, from Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State, published last month by Nation Books.

Donkey Business

by Thomas Frank,

That the Republican Party has worked its way to a lonely and unpopular place is not news. The G.O.P.’s congressional wing has been moving rightward since the 1980s, and in…

Saving Your Children from a Harvard Education

by Jeff Madrick,

In 1972, the economics department at Harvard denied tenure to the leftist professor Samuel Bowles. Responding to the decision in the Harvard Crimson, Bowles asserted that he had been passed…

Trio Grande

by Thomas Frank,

The lady who changed the world,” was how The Economist described Margaret Thatcher in its obituary. Whether or not we believe that individuals ever wield such power over history, it…

The Age of Cruelty

by Jeff Madrick,

Following heavy Democratic losses in the 2010 congressional elections, Barack Obama announced that he was reading a biography of Ronald Reagan to see how the great man had handled his…

Blinded by the Right?

by T. M. Luhrmann,

How hippie Christians begat evangelical conservatives