Since November 3rd, conservative writers have been asking such questions like “What now for conservatism,” “Is the conservative movement in crisis?”

250 years after the birth of a nation dedicated to self-evident truths entitling our citizens to the rights to life, liberty, and happiness we, now, find ourselves in a search for meaning.  To paraphrase Harry Jaffa, since a conservative is supposed to have something definite to conserve it is ironic and worse that conservatism does not have the meaning for which it is searching to conserve.

Our modern movement was born to restore our founding ethos; oppose communism, statism, and internationalism; and maximize individual liberty while preserving the family.  These challenges have only grown worse.  And, we can now add not just communism abroad but at home—and Islamism. 

We don’t need a new meaning, but, rather, rededication to and understanding of our original one, which is still an economics of liberty and a sociology of virtue.  To borrow from Plato, just now is the exact time to readopt and unlock the very things we used to know.