Who Defines Conservatism?
"We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory."
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In his newsletter last week, Jonathan Last made what I thought was an interesting but mistaken point. He wrote:
Ideology is a little bit like currency: It is a store of value only to the extent that a lot of people agree on it. You can say you’re ‘conservative’ and use that word to mean a basket of ideas containing A, B, and C—but if the vast majority of…
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