National Conservatism

February 9, 2026 — Bill Glahn

Right wing gains around the world

Featured image From BBC News, Japanese stocks surge as Takaichi secures historic election victory. Right-wing Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi gambled on a snap election for parliament and won a huge victory, giving her ruling party not just an outright majority, but an outright supermajority. Less successful was the gamble taken on a snap election in the northeastern Spanish region of Aragon by the leading center-right Peoples Party (PP). Together with the »
February 14, 2022 — Paul Mirengoff

What does a National Conservative foreign policy look like in practice?

Featured image In this post, I linked to a New York Times op-ed by three leading National (or Common Good) Conservatives on foreign policy. The piece, called “Hawks Are Standing in the Way of a New Republican Party,” was written by Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen, and Gladden Pappin. My post didn’t discuss the merits of the New York Times op-ed. Instead, I cited it as an example of what looks like a »
February 6, 2022 — Paul Mirengoff

Common good constitutionalism vs. originalism

Featured image Adrian Vermeule is a law professor at Harvard and a leading proponent of Common Good (or National) Conservatism. He has written an op-ed for the New York Times called “The Supreme Court is on the wrong path.” I’m not sure what path the Supreme Court is on (we’ll probably have a better idea by the end of June). Therefore, I neither agree nor disagree with proposition set forth in the »
February 4, 2022 — Paul Mirengoff

Whoopi Goldberg and the cancel culture

Featured image Josh Hammer has a column for Jewish World Review called “The limits of appeals to cancel culture.” Hammer seems bothered that David French lamented Goldberg’s suspension on cancel culture grounds. Having also objected to the suspension, I want to address Hammer’s column. Hammer argues that “there are certain things that should be canceled.” This is true, of course. Some speech is not protected by the First Amendment — Hammer cites »