conservatism

From bar stools across the country, the view of the Tory party race is unkind, and troubling

The former Reform leader addresses the Manning conference

Theme: a U.S. conservative party hijacked by dastardly ideologues. Sound familiar?

Campus conservatives celebrate

Conservative parties could be on the verge of claiming a majority of the country’s legislative seats.

The Victorian-era disease is plaguing booming Alberta. Who is to blame?

Andrew Coyne spells out what’s on the Tory to-do list

Friday’s big American media story was the resignation of Washington Post weblogger and conservative-movement specialist Dave Weigel, who came under pressure when gossips obtained some of his tart-tongued and borderline nutty private e-mails to Journolist (a controversial private online club for young liberal media personnel which itself collapsed amidst all the chaos and poo-flinging). By a weird happenstance, Canada’s most remote, reclusive correspondent actually knows Weigel slightly. In February 2008, at the peak of the presidential primary campaigns, I spent a week slouching around the Washington offices of Reason, the libertarian magazine where he then worked.

Paul Wells says social conservatism is on the rise; Andrew Coyne disagrees

Squabbling persists over who’s smarter, liberals or conservatives. Maybe a better question is: who cares?

Maxime Bernier delivered a speech to the Manning conference this weekend on conservatism and Quebec. The prepared text is here.

ANDREW COYNE on the Speech from the Throne