This session explores the role of conservative thought and politics in shaping domestic and international Cold War policy, from the beginning of the conflict through to beyond its traditional end date. Austin Clements details the curious entry of conservative American Jews into the Religious Right in the early Cold War, noting their power in the McCarthy era and their later participation in the postwar conservative intellectual movement. Andrew Cerise brings us to Southern conservatives during the Vietnam War, who turned their attentions to international shows of power when they could not exercise control over domestic politics in the Civil Rights South. Jennifer Depew and Mark Thomas-Patterson both expand our notions of Cold War temporality by exploring how dynamics that arose in Cold War contexts continued to dominate even after it had ended. Depew does so by showing the connections between anti-communist thought and anti-federal government paramilitary activity. Thomas-Patterson focuses on post-war congressional nuclear security debates. Each paper asks scholars to reconsider traditional notions of twentieth century conservative coalition-building, stressing the interplay of politics at home and politics abroad. The panel ultimately suggests that the Cold War remains vital to understanding the American political experience through the 2000s.