An Organized Disruption
Peaceful discourse, civil protest, and open debate have all been essential to the American experience. Even more so on our university and college campuses, once heralded as pioneers of free…
conservatism
A Conversation with Martin Gurri (Part 1 of 2)
The analyst and author talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about philanthropy as an elite institution that should be as “on the defensive” against populist discontent as…
A Conversation with Martin Gurri (Part 2 of 2)
The analyst and author talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about philanthropy’s reaction to popular discontent with elites, contemplates the populist future of conservatism, and considers some…
A Conversation With Symposium Contributor Joanne Florino
In her contribution to the Giving Review's symposium “Conservatism and the Future of Tax-Incentivized Big Philanthropy,” Joanne Florino argues that the best way for conservative grantmakers to pursue their core…
Going Green for White Supremacy: Preserving the Frontier
Many of the worst ideas of our century can be traced back to pseudoscience in the last century. Eugenics, phrenology, and innate racial disparities may be debunked, but their ghosts…
Going Green for White Supremacy: Scientific Racism on Display
To Madison Grant, William Z. Ripley, and countless other evolutionists of the age these were the profound, unavoidable conclusions drawn from nature’s inner workings, which Charles Darwin had only begun…
Going Green for White Supremacy: Eugenics Is Born
According to Spiro, Grant drew three lessons from Gobineau’s race theory: first, to apply zoological concepts (e.g. dangerous crossbreeding) to Man; second, that class struggle explains all of human history;…
Going Green for White Supremacy: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Eugenicists’ fear of racial intermixing made them natural allies with the feminists of the powerful birth control movement. While contraception is widespread today, few people are aware that in the…
Going Green for White Supremacy: The End of an Era
For all its might it was clear by the mid-1920s that eugenics was losing its powerful influence in government and the scientific community. It’d taken decades to build—only to collapse…
Opposition “Anti-Marxist Liberals” in Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism
In his book, political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that conservatism should return to what he considers its older, deeper, Anglo-American religious and nationalist roots—as opposed to continuing to be a…