Johnathan O'Neill (GSU): The First Conservatives: The Constitutional Challenge to Progressivism. From the inaugural issue of Breakthrough Journal, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger on modernizing liberalism; Michael Lind is against cosmopolitanism; Dalton Conley on liberalism and the new inequality; Rob Atkinson on the trouble with progressive economics; and Fred Block on Daniel Bell's prophecy. Kenneth Minogue writes in praise of reactionaries (and Harvey Mansfield reviews Minogue's The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life). Alternate History: The right needs a narrative to refute the superstitions of progress. From US Intellectual History, Tim Lacy on Mortimer Adler and Great Books Liberalism (and more and more and more and more). Walter Williams on understanding liberals. Franklin Foer on the roots of liberalism and how the Civil War remade politics. A review of Libertarianism, from A to Z by Jeffrey A. Miron. The three fundamentalisms of the American right: Michael Lind on how conservatism went from orthodox and traditional to radical and counter-revolutionary. Reclaiming the politics of freedom: Since the ’70s, liberals and leftists have misidentified the source of conservatism’s appeal. From Alternative Right, Robert Burnham on understanding the egalitarian religion. From New Politics, starting all over from scratch? Sheila Cohen on a plea for "radical reform" of our own movement. Hal Crowther on the alarming revival of Ayn Rand, the Right's weirdest idol of them all (and more). Seth Ackerman on liberals and racism. Anthony de Jasay on suckers, punters, pathbreakers: When Homo oeconomicus is selflessly selfish. A review of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong With America by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch (and more and more and more).
