12/10/2004
Soul-free conservatism by Michael A. Glueck
Soul-free conservatism
The book is cast as a personal memoir: how the author, after decades of uneasiness about where conservatism was headed, finally broke with the movement over Iraq. But he also rewrites the history of conservatism. The movement's standard history depicts a brilliant intellectual, political and cultural Long March, with a few unfortunate digressions. To Gold, conservatism's history has been a tale of gaining the world but losing your soul.
The book is cast as a personal memoir: how the author, after decades of uneasiness about where conservatism was headed, finally broke with the movement over Iraq. But he also rewrites the history of conservatism. The movement's standard history depicts a brilliant intellectual, political and cultural Long March, with a few unfortunate digressions. To Gold, conservatism's history has been a tale of gaining the world but losing your soul.
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