The Conservative Sensibility

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, an "astonishing" and "enthralling" (Booklist) new reflection on American conservatism, examining how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition—one that now finds itself under threat. For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American...