The evergreen questions raised by the label "conservative" are: Conserving what and from whom? Modern-day conservatives don't necessarily want to protect or "conserve" the same things as their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eliza Anderson, Deseret News SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts — As a graduate student at Harvard University in the 1970s, George H.

A conservative can be understood both as a person who adheres to a particular philosophy of life and as someone who holds a political outlook rooted in tradition, stability, and individual freedom.

There is a great confusion plaguing American politics today: What does conservatism stand for? The label is ubiquitous, yet its substance grows increasingly elusive. We debate endlessly about policy ...

Booker T. Washington has long been upheld as the original black conservative. In an 1896 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, he wrote that "the negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting." But ...

John Hood, president of the John William Pope Foundation and adjunct instructor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, spoke to students about the foundations of American conservatism at a Thursday ...

Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason, of which one makes us ardently interested in our ...

Gore Vidal took a British television interviewer by surprise in 2012 when he remarked, “When you foreigners hear the word ‘conservative,’ you think of kindly old men hunting foxes. They’re not.

Tim Miller sensed the Republican Party was changing well before the rise of the current president. As a former staffer and big supporter of the 2008 John McCain campaign, he watched as vice ...