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Culture
Culture, from a conservative viewpoint, is understood as the bedrock of a stable and flourishing society, representing the accumulated wisdom, traditions, values, and shared experiences of a people over time....
Crime
Overview President Joe Biden, center, at an event with police chiefs at the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 28, 2024. Conservatives tend to view crime as a serious...
Zionism
Largely pro-Palestinian protests have sparked pushback at Harvard University. Zionism is a political and cultural movement that emerged in the late 19th century, advocating for the establishment of a Jewish...
Global Warming
THAILAND: Infectious-disease researchers catch bats to study. Global warming refers to the long-term increase in Earth's average surface temperature due to human activities, primarily the emission of greenhouse gases like...
Affordable Housing
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass on the site of 49 units of affordable housing in Boyle Heights were she signed an executive directive to accelerate and lower the cost of building...
Sanctuary Cities
Sanctuary cities, broadly defined as local jurisdictions that adopt policies to limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement authorities, represent a significant point of contention in contemporary political and legal discourse....
Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. naval base located on the southeastern tip of Cuba, has gained global prominence primarily due to its association with the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Established in...
Education
Education in the conservative tradition is the formation of persons within an inherited body of knowledge, custom, and judgement. The orientation is humanist and inductive rather than progressive and instrumentalist:...
Separatism
Separatism refers to the desire of a group, community, or region to achieve independence from a larger political entity, often a nation-state. The motivations behind separatist movements vary widely and...
Immigrant Laborers
Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest working with an H-2A visa maintain a safe distance as a machine is moved on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California. Immigrant laborers are individuals...
Defunding the Police
Police officers lining against movement to abolish them. Defunding the police, a modern socio-political movement, advocates for reallocating or redirecting funds from law enforcement agencies to other social services. This...
The Paris Agreement
ABC News covering air pollution, 2017. The Paris Agreement, signed in 2015 by 195 United Nations countries in Paris, aims to combat climate change by reducing fossil fuels. The Agreement...
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Woman’s Rights
Woman's rights denotes the body of legal and political claims asserting equal standing for women in property, contract, suffrage, education, employment, and family law. In the Anglo-American world the sequence ran from married women's property acts in the 1830s through the suffrage victories of 1918 to 1928 in Britain and 1920 in the United States, to equal-pay and anti-discrimination statutes in the 1960s and 1970s. Conservatives supported and in several cases led these reforms, on the ground that the common-law doctrine of coverture — which merged a wife's legal personality into her husband's — was an inherited defect rather than...
White Privilege
White privilege is the claim that people classified as white receive unearned advantages in societies with a history of racial hierarchy, and that these advantages persist after formal legal discrimination has ended. The term entered wide academic use through Peggy McIntosh's 1988 working paper at Wellesley College, which listed everyday conveniences she attributed to her race, and moved into corporate and government training programmes across North America and Britain during the 2010s.1 Conservatives dispute the concept on three grounds: that it assigns moral debts by ancestry rather than conduct, that it collapses the distinction between statistical disparity and personal culpability,...
Torture
Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain on a person held in custody, for confession, information, punishment, or intimidation. European law abolished it as a judicial instrument during the eighteenth century, and the Convention against Torture, adopted by the United Nations on 10 December 1984 and in force from 26 June 1987, prohibits it absolutely — admitting no exception for war, public emergency, or superior orders.3 The settled conservative position is that the prohibition holds. It rests on the Christian and natural law claim that a person retains a dignity the state did not confer and cannot withdraw, and...
Social Security
Social Security is the United States' federal old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program, financed by a dedicated payroll tax and administered by the Social Security Administration. Enacted in 1935 as the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, it pays benefits to retired and disabled workers and their dependents, drawing on contributions credited to two trust funds. The program is the largest single line in the federal budget and the principal source of income for most American retirees. Its long-term financing is the subject of a recurring policy argument: the combined trust funds are projected to deplete within roughly a decade,...