Every issue has one section dedicated to a particular question. Collecting responses from a range of perspectives, these symposia prompt us to think about the values and ideas that shape our most urgent cultural and personal decisions.
“Conservatives have traditionally spoken of themselves as the voices of truth, goodness and beauty drowned by the tide of modern revolution. They have been by nature pessimistic, not merely or even chiefly about the probable fortunes of any utopian schemes for perfection of a dual-natured man…”
An Interview with Harvey Mansfield
Harvey C. Mansfield is a professor of government and political philosophy at Harvard, where he has taught since 1962. He is the author or translator…
Burke, Paine and the Great Law of Change
An argument pitting two visions of liberalism against one another: one explicitly tied to Enlightenment ideas and directed to a transformation of society and man…
Conserving the Novel
In Issue 9 of n+1, the critic (and UCLA English professor) Mark McGurl describes the problem facing the contemporary novel this way: What should the…
Why Conservatives Should Read Marx
Every thriving political movement contains diverse and often warring elements bound together by little more than strength of feeling and the lure of power, so…
The Drama of Cultural Conservatism
This identification of being and beauty, which forms the backbone of “culture,” also hints at the historical font of conservatism.
