A year‑end curation by a leading conservative outlet reveals the set of legal, academic, and cultural issues its editors consider most urgent: birthright citizenship, judicial separation‑of‑powers, higher‑education standards, tariff law, and cultural criticism are foregrounded. Tracking these annual 'best of' lists gives a compact signal of which arguments and policy hooks will be amplified into the next year.
— Editorial anthologies are an early indicator of agenda formation — they show which issues will get recurrent op‑eds, lawfare framing, and policy attention from a coherent political‑intellectual constituency.
Elizabeth Corey
2026.04.21
82% relevant
Elizabeth Corey explicitly diagnoses a reordering of conservative priorities (from intellectual/constitutional stewardship to activist populism) and argues for returning priority to cultural transmission and local institutions; that maps onto the existing idea that the content and ordering of conservative priorities are changing and matter for policy and institutional behavior. The actor is Elizabeth Corey (Baylor professor) speaking on Law & Liberty (podcast, Apr 21, 2026) urging conservatives to resist the New Right's federalist/populist thrust.
Allison Schrager, Rafael A. Mangual
2026.03.04
70% relevant
The episode is explicitly about defining conservative economics — hosts from the Manhattan Institute (Rafael Mangual, Allison Schrager) discuss tradeoffs between free markets, regulation, incentives, and the government's role, which directly maps to the existing idea about how conservatives prioritize economic policy and how those priorities are being renegotiated.
Law & Liberty Editors
2025.12.29
100% relevant
'The Best of 2025' list itself: it collects pieces on birthright citizenship, the Court, tariffs, and higher‑ed reform that Law & Liberty will push into 2026 debate.