William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator who founded the political magazine National Review in 1955. He died in 2008. When William F. Buckley burst onto the ...

Wonks and activists of the conservative-libertarian fusionist flavor are cautiously optimistic that their politics will come ...

At the beginning of the Iraq War, David Frum published an article in National Review entitled “Unpatriotic Conservatives,” attacking those on the right opposed to the war—including the founders of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Years of bickering over the meaning of American conservatism and the identity of the American right, which had ...

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts on the National Mall last year. (Luke Johnson for The Washington Post) When American conservatives abandon free-market principles, there’s no telling what ...

This article appears in the April 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. The main theme in much writing on ...

I've been thinking a good deal lately about the mood of conservatism -- and how the Buckley-Meyer fusion of the pre-existing elements of specifically American conservatism provides an important ...