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Will Conservatism Survive?

By Robert Justin Lipkin

If there’s an Obama mandate tomorrow, conservatism–Bush-Cheney’s radical, conservatism, as well as reactionary conservatism–will have imploded. A new, more principled, more sophisticated conservatism will need to be devised, if conservatism is to survive at all. Principled conservatives have an alternative ready at hand, namely–Burkean minimalism. But Obama’s mandate, should he achieve one, will be [...]

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on November 03, 2008 (boomark / email).