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Markets, tax, regulation, and the working family budget
Arts, ideas, the public square, and the long fight for shared meaning
War, diplomacy, borders, and the world order in flux
Religion in public life, parenting, and the moral inheritance
Silicon Valley, AI, free speech online, and the surveillance debate
A founding letter from the editor on what Vanguard is building, what it refuses to be, and why a quieter conservative press is the most counter-cultural project on the right in 2026.
For decades the right defended bigness on principle. The principle has not held up. A serious conservative antitrust tradition exists — and it predates the New Deal by half a century.
A senator who fundraises six months a year cannot legislate. A president whose comms shop is his reelection committee cannot govern. We have built a political class whose central activity is performance.
We treat roads and bridges as economic infrastructure. We treat the household as private taste. The categories are reversed. A serious conservative family policy would close the gap.
