With True North principles, Heritage may reunite the right

The Heritage Foundation yesterday released a statement of unifying conservative principles that is as good as anything since the Sharon Statement drafted at the Buckley family estate in 1960. At a time when parts of the conservative movement are at odds with each other about Donald Trump and Trumpism, this reminder of “first principles” is particularly timely and welcome.

The Sharon Statement remains eloquent, but it has a somewhat dated feel, considering its focus on the Cold War against international Communism. (My father, Haywood Hillyer III, was at the Sharon Conference; I wrote about it here.) Still, much of what it said is echoed in Heritage’s new “True North: The Principles of Conservatism.”