The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

Matthew Continetti

Basic Books, 496, 2022

Studying conservatism’s past, declares Matthew Continetti in the introduction to his new history of the conservative movement, The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism, is enough to convince one “that it has a future.” After reading the rest of it, I’m inclined to agree. Yet having done so, I can’t help but wonder if the reason it does is because conservatism’s future has so often been a matter of reliving its past.