# Willmoore Kendall American political theorist (1909–1967); ex-Trotskyist Yale professor, mentor to [[William F. Buckley Jr.]], founding senior editor of [[National Review]]. His **majoritarian** conservatism — the "deliberate sense" of a virtuous community may rightfully enforce its orthodoxy — is the road-not-taken alternative to both libertarian and Straussian conservatism, and an ancestor of populist majoritarianism. > [!info] Stub — created 2026-06-06 as a link target for the elite-theory cluster buildout. Expand.