Continental reactionaries are not good guides to the study of American institutions.
James M. Patterson
Can the West today learn valuable lessons from Habsburg family lore? Probably not.
Many conservative and religious colleges take a failing "car dealer" approach.
National Conservatives hoped to rebuild the Republican Party on a platform that was economically liberal and socially conservative. It didn't work.
Using the idiom of his present-day American admirers, one is tempted to ask what Franco’s conservatism conserved?
To succeed, freedom conservatism must offer more than lofty principles.
Tensions within American Catholicism today reflect a long-running debate between Americanists and separationists.
Harking back to G. K. Chesterton, Davis offers a defense of the local, relational, and a sense of place.
The "infrastructuralization" of social media makes clear how much has been lost with the decline of print publications.
Ideas and institutions naturally support one another, but the feedback loop is currently broken.
The makeup of the National Conservative alliance is shifting. And it's starting to look more like the old fusionism.
If a constitution is merely an instrument for implementing favored conservative policy goals, why have one at all?
New York City was once a thriving center of religious life in America. It could be again.
Conservative divisions on economic policy have been on display this year.
The University of Austin's success depends on its commitment to principle, but also on its leaders' personal investment.
Should conservatives recapture American higher education or start anew?
Ahmari's most fundamental concerns are not really focused on tradition—they are about pietas.
Barruel’s conspiracy of the Enlightenment has become a regrettable genre of conservative Catholic commentary.
Republican presidential candidates will likely use nominee lists to demonstrate their commitments to originalism and constitutional government.
While enduring the tribulations of sectarian Liberalism, Catholics must have an alternative vision that prioritizes liberty on natural law grounds.
Assessing Fr. John Courtney Murray's We Hold These Truths at 60.
Is America entering a period of despotism? Dreher's new book doesn't issue a conclusive verdict.
Neo-integralists today lack formation in republican institutions, and succumb too easily to the lure of authoritarianism.
Integralism is an internet aesthetic of mostly young men alienated from the public life and consumed with the libido dominandi.
James Patterson talks about three legendary clergymen in America and how they shaped our public discourse.
Liberalism has never had a prefabricated essence ascertained all at once or implemented with a coherent plan.
Clarifying the relationship between liberal democracy and Catholicism in America for those whose history doesn’t go further back than the 1980s.
The issue is no longer the preservation of liberal arts curricula at elite liberal arts colleges. By now, these institutions have made their choices.
It is better to embrace the freedom of moral and intellectual diversity across institutions.
King's message has no home in either political party because the world in which he prophesied racial equaly has disappeared.
James M. Patterson is Associate Professor of Politics at Ave Maria University and Contributing Editor at Law & Liberty. He is also the President of the Ciceronian Society, a Research Fellow at the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, a Fellow at the Institute of Human Ecology and IHEVoices, and the author of Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, Falwell (University of Pennsylvania, 2019). You can follow him on Twitter at @McGillPatterson.