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The Origins of Western Civilization
The first part in a free eight-part series hosted by Victor Davis Hanson, The Od...
The Foundationalist Manifesto: The Politics of Future Past
Charles Haywood at The Worthy House offers a way out of liberalism, presenting a...
The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World
Written during the opening phase of World War II, James Burnham proposed the the...
Daniel McCarthy: National Conservatism in the Early American Republic
Daniel McCarthy's remarks during the "American National Conservatism" panel at t...
By Dan McCarthy
Manhood and the Fall of Civilization
Does this story from the fall of the Roman republic hold wisdom for America in h...
Greece vs Rome, with Boris Johnson and Mary Beard
On November 19th Intelligence Squared hosted the ultimate clash of civilizations...
Roger Scruton: Beauty in a World of Ugliness
Roger Scruton with D.C. Schindler and John F. Crosby on "Beauty in a World of Ug...
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Constitution 101 Lecture Series
"Learn the meaning of the Constitution and the principles of American government...
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...
First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
Recommended by American Moment's COO Nick Solheim. ...
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Recommended reading by TAC Editor Micah Meadowcroft in his latest podcast appear...
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
Christopher Caldwell makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, re...
From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
In this spectacular one-volume general history of the West from 1500 to present,...
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
In what is often described as the best single-volume history of the American Civ...
On Conservatism
The Masters of The Universe (feat. Attorney General Jeff Sessions)
In Today's "Moment of Truth," Saurabh and Nick sit down with Jeff Sessions, form...
Can Conservatism Be More Than a Grudge?
"Republicans in power would seldom even consider a major infrastructure program ...
By Julius Krein
American Nationalists
Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party provides a blueprint for conservatives tod...
What’s Next? The Republicans
A new fusionism is forming that evaluates social, economic, and foreign policies...
“When virtue loses all her loveliness” – some reflections on Capitalism and “the free society”
When we lack the will to see things as they really are, there is nothing so myst...
The New American Right
An outline for a post-fusionist Conservatism, written by Sohrab Ahmari in First ...
The Right After Trump
The time of the woke conservative must come, writes Sohrab Ahmari....
Art and Aesthetics
Why Architecture Is Political
"Architecture is not just the expression of our positive political values, but a...
Talking with Roger Kimball About Beaty, Aesthetics, & National Vitality
What does a civilization's idea of beauty say about it's health? When did the pr...
Unmaking The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened to the public in late August. Those of u...
By James Panero
The Story of Art
E. H. Gombrich's seminal work, The Story of Art, is a survey of Western art from...
By EH Gombrich
From Bauhaus to Our House
After critiquing—and infuriating—the art world with The Painted Word, award-...
By Tom Wolfe
The Painted Word
Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word is a fantastic and quick critique of modern art. Pu...
By Tom Wolfe
A Few Classics
The Old Man and the Sea
One of Hemingway’s greatest works, the old man and the sea is a parable about ...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution is one of the founding texts of Anglo-Am...
By Edmund Burke
The Prince
In this short tract, Machiavelli offers guidance to the Medicis on how they coul...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is perhaps the most famous piece of American litera...
By Mark Twain
John Quincy Adams’ 1821 Independence Day Address
Then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams used this speech to lay out his vision...
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