Linker redux
John posts Damon Linker’s intelletual topography of contemporary conservatism at The New Republic.
What’s odd is the credit Linker gives to conservative commentators in shifting the American outlook to the right for the last several decades:
Will any of these writers contribute to the emergence of a new right to take the place of the one that left such a profound mark on the nation over the past three decades? It’s much too soon to know, of course, but reading their essays and blog posts, one at least senses them thinking for its own sake, following their ideas wherever they lead, without regard for whether or not their conclusions will contribute to the short-term advantage of a political party. That, at least, is a step in the right direction, as none other than William F. Buckley realized fifty years ago.
What about the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute or the Hoover Institution? There’s a bigger intellectual apparatus out there, and it always thought “for its own sake.”
As intellectual history this is interesting, but strikes me as the tip of the iceberg rather than the whole thing.
–Sam
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