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Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) was an Anglo-French writer, historian, and politician whose distinctive contribution to conservative thought was the diagnosis, in The Servile State (1912), that the trajectory of advanced industrial...
John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) was an English clergyman, theologian, and writer whose intellectual journey from Anglican Tractarian to Roman Catholic cardinal made him the most consequential English religious figure of...
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) was a German-Jewish political philosopher who, after fleeing Nazi Germany, taught at the New School for Social Research and from 1949 at the University of Chicago, where...
Robert Nisbet
Robert Alexander Nisbet was an American sociologist whose work over four decades supplied conservative thought with its most fully developed sociology — an account of how political and social order...
Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (born 1929) is a Scottish philosopher whose mature work, beginning with After Virtue (1981) and developed in Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1988), Three Rival Versions of Moral...
Michael Oakeshott
Michael Joseph Oakeshott was an English philosopher and historian of political thought, professor at the London School of Economics from 1951 to 1969, whose work supplied the most philosophically demanding...
Roger Scruton
Sir Roger Vernon Scruton was an English philosopher whose forty years of writing transformed conservative thought in the Anglosphere from a defensive posture into a positive philosophical programme. Where post-war...
Russell Kirk
Russell Amos Kirk (1918–1994) was an American historian, literary critic, and political theorist whose work re-anchored American conservatism in the Burkean tradition at a moment when the term had no...
John Tory
John Tory is a Canadian municipal politician who served as the 65th Mayor of Toronto from 2014 until his resignation in 2023. From a conservative perspective, his long tenure as...
John Rustad
John Rustad is a Canadian provincial politician currently serving as the leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia. From a conservative perspective, his leadership and the platform he advocates...
Jean Charest
Jean Charest is a prominent Canadian politician whose career has spanned both federal and provincial politics, including serving as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and later...
Doug Ford
Doug Ford is a prominent Canadian politician who has served as the 26th Premier of Ontario since 2018 and the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. From a...
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) was the most consequential economist of the American right in the twentieth century. He rebuilt the case for free markets at a moment when Keynesian management was the settled consensus, showed that inflation is a monetary phenomenon rather than a wage-price accident, and argued that economic freedom and political freedom stand or fall together. His work moved from technical journals to the living rooms of ordinary voters, and the policies that followed — the end of conscription, floating exchange rates, inflation targeting, school choice — carry his fingerprints. Conservatives claim Friedman as a founder, though he called...
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 4 May 1979 to 28 November 1990, the longest continuous premiership of the twentieth century and the first held by a woman in Britain. She won three general elections, broke the industrial power of the trade unions, sold state industries and council houses, restored price stability at heavy cost, and reversed her country's assumption of managed decline. She is also the figure through whom conservatives argue with each other. To one camp she is the standard: a leader who understood that inflation is a moral question, that state ownership corrupts...
Karl Marx
Karl Marx (1818–1883) was the German philosopher and economist whose theory of class struggle became the most consequential political doctrine of the modern age. With Friedrich Engels he wrote the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848); his Capital (1867) supplied the movement's economic system.1 For conservatives Marx is the arch-ideologue: the thinker who reduced civilization to economics, declared war on property, family, religion, and nation, and licensed the total states of the twentieth century. Engaging him seriously remains a conservative obligation, because his heirs never left the field. Born in Trier on 5 May 1818, Marx edited the Rheinische Zeitung,...
G.K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) was a London journalist who became one of the most quoted defenders of tradition, family, and faith in the English language. Across some eighty books, a weekly Illustrated London News column that ran from 1905 to 1936, and thousands of essays, he argued with wit rather than rancour that the modern world was not too conservative but too timid to be sane.1 Conservatives return to Chesterton for two devices above all: his account of tradition as the extension of the franchise to the dead, and the principle now called Chesterton's fence — the rule that a...