The New Conservatives: Intellectuals in Retreat

Ten years ago, who could have predicted the rise of a new conservatism in American life? Yet such a conservatism has arisen, and what among other things is new about it is that, unlike previous incarnations of conservatism in America, it speaks neither in the gruff voice of established privilege nor in the hollow one of aristocratic pretension. No, the novelty of this new conservatism resides in the fact that it appears to be a conservatism arrived at upon disinterested grounds—a conservati...