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13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read)

by Christopher J. Scalia

Christopher J. Scalia’s 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read) helps anyone interested in conservatism restock their fiction shelves and better understand a great intellectual tradition. Engaging, insightful, and funny, it introduces readers to great literature and teaches them about principles central to conservativism.

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13 Conservative Novels Chris Scalia

2025 Books

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Religion and the American Revolution 

By Yuval Levin | Adam J. White | John Yoo
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Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth

By Robert P. George
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Lessons from the New Cold War

By Hal Brands
Mind the Children will help parents and policymakers gain a comprehensive understanding of a multifaceted problem, which other experts have been too quick to trace to a single cause.

Mind the Children

By Naomi Schaefer Riley | Sally Satel
13 Conservative Novels Chris Scalia

13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read)

By Christopher J. Scalia

The Triumph of Economic Freedom

By Phil Gramm | Donald J. Boudreaux
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The Free Inquiry Papers 

By Sally Satel | Robert Maranto | Catherine Salmon | Lee Jussim
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The Real Retirement Crisis

By Andrew G. Biggs
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Capitalism and the American Revolution 

By Yuval Levin | Adam J. White | John Yoo
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Like Silicon from Clay: What Ancient Jewish Wisdom Can Teach Us About AI

By Michael M. Rosen
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Tides of Fortune: The Rise and Decline of Great Militaries

By Zack Cooper
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Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious

By Ross Douthat

The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World

By Hal Brands
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School Rethink 2.0: Putting Reinvention into Practice 

By Frederick M. Hess | Michael B. Horn | Juliet Squire

2024 Books

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The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World

By Christine Rosen
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Democracy and the American Revolution

By Yuval Levin | Adam J. White | John Yoo
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Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity

By Scott Winship | Yuval Levin | Ryan Streeter
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Ending ESG and Restoring the Economic Enlightenment

By Phil Gramm | Terrence Keeley
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American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation—and Could Again

By Yuval Levin
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War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World

By Hal Brands
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Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be

By Timothy P. Carney
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Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization

By Brad Wilcox
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Government Project

By Edward C. Banfield | Kevin R. Kosar
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Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K–12, and College

By Frederick M. Hess | Michael Q. McShane

2023 Books

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Where Have All the Democrats Gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes

By Ruy Teixeira | John B. Judis
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Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War

By Leon Aron

Defending Taiwan: Essays on Deterrence, Alliances, and War

By Kori Schake | Allison Schwartz

Getting China Wrong

By Aaron Friedberg

The Conservative Futurist: How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised

By James Pethokoukis
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Democracy or Republic? The People and the Constitution

By Jay Cost
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Why Congress

By Philip Wallach
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The Great School Rethink

By Frederick M. Hess
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The New Makers of Modern Strategy

By Hal Brands
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Preserving Links in the Pandemic

By Michael R. Strain | Stan Veuger

2022 Books

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Governing the EU in an Age of Division

By Dalibor Rohac

Men Without Work

By Nicholas Eberstadt

Broken News

By Chris Stirewalt

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology

By Chris Miller

Empire Imagined

By Giselle Donnelly

From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia

By Dan Slater | Joseph Wong

Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China

By Hal Brands | Michael Beckley

Agency

By Ian Rowe
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By Matthew Continetti

2021 Books

Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic

By Scott Gottlieb
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