Joshua Tait

Conservative intellectual historian; Substack writer; Niskanen Center affiliated; argues the American Conservative Movement has always been functionally counterrevolutionary rather than genuinely Burkean

Tait writes “Notes Toward a History of the Conservative Movement” on Substack. His essay “Conservatives or Counterrevolutionaries?” (August 2024) is the primary secondary source for the wiki’s Counterrevolution concept page. He has also written on Burnham, Jaffa, Whittaker Chambers, and Nicolas Gómez Dávila.

See Conservatives or Counterrevolutionaries? for his key argument.