Joshua Tait

Notes toward a liberal patriotism.

How a bitter 1986 confab prefigured the Right's fault lines today.

The "The Camp of the Saints" and its American readers.

The Right's habit of defiance.

A detailed, exhausting, and ultimately too-gentle treatment of the midcentury writer and editor, Frank Meyer.

The conservative movement "assumed it had intellectual ownership over the presidency," but an NEH appointment fight reveals the Reagan administration disagreed.

Ideological entrepreneur, architect of ruin.

He didn’t give the tech right new ideas—not really. What he gave them was permission.

Where the rediscovery of Sam Francis goes wrong.

From "National Greatness" to "Make America Great Again."

Hard thinking on difficult and uncomfortable questions about how to keep everything from falling apart.