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 ...

Conservatism is the revered philosophy of the rule of law, limited government, personal responsibility, moral clarity, fiscal responsibility and family values. Until your guy gets elected, that is.

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 ...

OK I raised this question in last week's weekly Current Events thread, but I think it merits discussion. My thesis is that Conservatism is Not Real. What I mean by that is two things. First, that ...

In 2016, prominent conservatives warned fellow Republicans against backing Donald Trump in the GOP presidential primary. The billionaire real-estate mogul and reality TV star, Trump’s conservative ...

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 ...

It is with reluctance that I call myself conservative, but not because of distaste for the brand or any sense of uncertainty regarding my perspective. My reluctance lies in the misunderstanding of the ...

Can a freedom-centered tendency on the right make itself a genuine political force? Washington, D.C., is nervous. The unaccountable bureaucracy and bloated government that find a home there, and the ...

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett The Trump administration has ...

I am not now, nor have I ever been, a conservative. Nonetheless, I think it’s useful, even important, that there be a conservative party in the American political spectrum. British thinker, and ...