Novak

It’s only with the recovery of the principles of the American constitutional order—a genuinely unique contribution of conservative philanthropy—that conservatism achieved the degree of theoretical coherence, patriotic allegiance, and fidelity to human nature essential for political success.

The first in a series of five republished articles to mark our fifth anniversary.

With whom, though, and for what? In Leah Hunt-Hendrix’s and Astra Taylor’s new book, unfortunately, it seems as if meaningful, bottom-up anti-centralism might be too constrained by their modifying adjective.