Do conservatives need to return to the principles that placed Ronald Reagan in the White House in 1980? Do they need to forget those principles and devise some new strategy to reach voters? Is there an alternative?

Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor at National Review and columnist for TIME, addressed those questions during a presentation today to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. Click play below to hear Ponnuru’s assessment of one of the problems plaguing the conservative movement today.

4:20 p.m. update: Watch the entire 57:52 recording by clicking the play button below.

You’ll find other John Locke Foundation video presentations here.