George H. Nash wrote the book on conservatism and offers a scholar's eye on the conservative movement.

Gore Vidal took a British television interviewer by surprise in 2012 when he remarked, “When you foreigners hear the word ‘conservative,’ you think of kindly old men hunting foxes. They’re not.

My path to conservatism was somewhat typical: I was raised in a home with Republican parents in a post-Cold War era before social media. At 18, I moved to the liberal Mecca of New York City, where my ...