The Nation -- The Conservative Imagination

An interesting review of Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D'Souza - a very poor "book."

A serious book by a conservative today would face the dilemma I mentioned above--that freedom and authority are profoundly at odds. Any true conservative (as opposed to a mere libertarian) has to be disturbed, if not disgusted, by the spectacle of contemporary America.

And by the same token, any true conservative must be uneasy with how completely the Republican Party has submitted to the interests of big business.

With D'Souza we have the young conservative turned organization man. He seems to understand instinctively that too much thinking might endanger the two-headed Republican anomaly of business conservatives joined to moral conservatives.