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Urbanism and Architecture

The Town That Charles Built

Before King Charles III inherited Britain’s throne, he was a prince with stron...

By Alex Marshall

We Bought A Crumbling Chateau — And That’s How It Looks Now

A couple purchases a 14th-century Chateau on the French countryside on the cheap...

By How To Renovate A Chateau

America’s Lost Classical Architecture

Despite being a relatively young nation, the United States of America has a weal...

By Kings and Things

Why Architecture Is Political

"Architecture is not just the expression of our positive political values, but a...

By Aris Roussinos

Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture

And if you don’t, why you should…...

By Nathan J. Robinson and Brianna Rennix

The Timeless Way of Building

In this mesmerizing and accessible book, Christopher Alexander describes a theor...

By Christopher Alexander

Designing a New Old Home: Part 1

Simon Sarris writes about what it takes to build something beautiful from nothin...

By Simon Sarris

Art and Aesthetics

The Death of Marat: The Paintings of Jacques-Louis David

Analyzing a painting is like analyzing any other document. A keen eye is require...

By Jake M.

Museums Are Hiding the Past

'Upon entering the exhibit, audiences are confronted with a statement on “Emot...

By Tiffany Jenkins

Into Great Beauty

"Have we lost the ability to see beauty, or is this desire laying dormant, waiti...

By Emina Melonic

Bret Easton Ellis: ‘My Generation Wanted to be Offended’

Famous author and podcaster Bret Easton Ellis joined The UnHerd Club to talk Ge...

By Bret Easton Ellis

Screen Epics For The Human Soul

More modest historical films often feel incomplete, insufficient; they demand sc...

By Peter Tonguette

Civilisation by Kenneth Clark

In the final moments of Sir Kenneth Clark's wonderful late 1960s documentary ser...

By Sir Kenneth Clark

The Left’s War Against Beauty and Classical Music (feat. Andrew Balio)

Andrew Balio joins Moment of Truth to talk the influence and legacy of classical...

By Moment of Truth

Environment

The War Against The American West (ft. William Perry Pendley)

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with William ...

By Moment of Truth

Land, Water, Air, Body. Conserving What Matters (feat. Micah Meadowcroft) | Moment of Truth Ep. 4

In today's episode, Saurabh, Nick, and esteemed guest Micah Meadowcroft discuss ...

By Moment of Truth

Look Back For The Future Of Conservative Environmentalism

Micah Meadowcroft charts the long history of environmentalism on the right from ...

By Micah Meadowcroft

The Saint of the City Goes Rural: Dorothy Day and the Life of the Land

Dorothy Day’s vision was one of learning from the land, that the cities might ...

By Myles Werntz

Personnel

One Way Government

Any future leader on the Right serious about fixing our problems must start by a...

By Auron MacIntyre

What Exactly Do We Want? (feat. Saurabh Sharma)

American Moment President Saurabh Sharma talks to Nick about his background, our...

By Moment of Truth

A Grand Strategy of Restraint Needs a ‘Counter Elite’

The American foreign policy establishment prefers meddling around the globe beca...

By Sumantra Maitra

America’s Collapsing Meritocracy Is a Recipe for Revolt

Chinese history shows what happens when an old system loses its force....

By Paul Musgrave

Madness in the Ruling Class: Who is leading our country?

In this episode of Feudal Future, guests Julius Krein and Aaron Renn join the sh...

By Feudal Future

The Elites We Need

American Moment President Saurabh Sharma joins First Things' Contributing Editor...

By First Things

James Burnham’s Managerial Elite

Krein explores the thought of James Burnham and its development throughout his l...

By Julius Krein

Moment of Truth

The Institutions Deserved It (feat. Dr. Yuval Levin)

Yuval Levin joins Moment of Truth to talk the loss of public faith in institutio...

By Moment of Truth

What Exactly Do We Want? (feat. Saurabh Sharma)

American Moment President Saurabh Sharma talks to Nick about his background, our...

By Moment of Truth

Christianity, Technology, and Human Flourishing (feat. James Poulos)

James Poulos joins Moment of Truth to discuss his book “Human, Forever,” Chr...

By Moment of Truth

Restoring Faith in the West (feat. Yoram Hazony)

Yoram Hazony joins Moment of Truth to talk about his new book, ‘Conservatism: ...

By Moment of Truth

The Left’s War Against Beauty and Classical Music (feat. Andrew Balio)

Andrew Balio joins Moment of Truth to talk the influence and legacy of classical...

By Moment of Truth

The Straussian In A Suit Would Like You To Wake Up (feat. Michael Anton)

In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Michael Anton, author of "T...

By Moment of Truth

Why Everything Has Been Terrible Since 1971 (feat. Zak Slayback)

In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Zak Slayback, a career and ...

By Moment of Truth

Technology

America Can’t Sit Out of the New Space Race

Paired with careful diplomacy and the expansion of a space-specific rules-based ...

By Kendall Carll

Christianity, Technology, and Human Flourishing (feat. James Poulos)

James Poulos joins Moment of Truth to discuss his book “Human, Forever,” Chr...

By Moment of Truth

The Case for American Seriousness

"We don't need aging institutions to pave the way for 21st-century dynamism. Wha...

By Katherine Boyle

Human, Forever: The Digital Politics of Spiritual War

Technology once made a god of America. Now America is technology's slave. What h...

By James Poulos

A New Golden Age of Governance

"We are not anywhere near a fully developed society—we are mostly not even dev...

By Wolf Tivy

Back to the Future

Peter Thiel reviews Ross Douthat's The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victi...

By Peter Thiel

Theory

Capitalism Killed the American West

"In all of his writings he is resistant to the idea that settlers and small-time...

By James Pogue

The End of Industrial Society

The Industrial Revolution stopped before it was ever completed. The aftermath is...

By Samo Burja

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the wor...

By Harold Bloom

The Origins of Western Civilization

The first part in a free eight-part series hosted by Victor Davis Hanson, The Od...

By Victor Davis Hanson

The Foundationalist Manifesto: The Politics of Future Past

Charles Haywood at The Worthy House offers a way out of liberalism, presenting a...

By Charles Haywood

Why is Everything Liberal?

Cardinal preferences explain why all institutions are woke, writes Richard Hanan...

By Richard Hanania

Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

"With two recessions and a botched pandemic under their belt, the Boomers are th...

By Helen Andrews

Institutions

The Grapple for the Gavel

Bradley Devlin, writer at The American Conservative, brings readers inside the f...

By Bradley Devlin

‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’

"To highlight the risk of consultants, her current theme, Mazzucato goes back to...

By Henry Mance

Regime Change, American Style: The Real Story of Watergate

Nixon’s enemies indulged in a retrospective moralization of Watergate, obfusca...

By Christopher Caldwell

Japan Was the Future, But it’s Stuck in the Past

We're not sure we agree with the author's solution (re: immigration), but his an...

By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes

The Institutions Deserved It (feat. Dr. Yuval Levin)

Yuval Levin joins Moment of Truth to talk the loss of public faith in institutio...

By Moment of Truth

Institutional Failure: Why Civilizations Collapse

We have to evaluate the perceptions that mint facts and theory, not merely perus...

By Samo Burja

How San Francisco Became A Failed City

"There is a sense that, on everything from housing to schools, San Francisco has...

By Nellie Bowles

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