Author: <a href="https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/author/johnfonte/" target="_blank">John Fonte</a>

Author: John Fonte

John Fonte is a senior fellow and director of the Center for American Common Culture at the Hudson Institute. He received his B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. in world history from the University of Chicago. He has written for numerous publications, including Foreign Affairs, Commentary, National Review, The National Interest, and the Claremont Review of Books, and is the author of Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or Be Ruled by Others?

National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, and Americanism

National Conservatism, Freedom Conservatism, and Americanism

The following is adapted from a talk delivered on April 18, 2024, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Bellevue, Washington. In the past two years, two competing groups of conservatives—National Conservatives or NatCons and Freedom Conservatives or FreeCons—have issued competing manifestos. These manifestos reflect a divergent understanding of the progressive challenge to the

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