American Conservatism’s Crisis of Ideas
The problem for American conservatives today is not their choice of candidates or the tone of their rhetoric. It is that their ideas are not politically sustainable.
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BERKELEY – On the back left corner of my desk right now are three recent books: Arthur Brooks’ The Battle, Charles Murray’s Coming Apart, and Nicholas Eberstadt’s A Nation of Takers. Together, they constitute an important intellectual movement, which also happens to be a large part of the reason that American conservatism today has little that is constructive to say about managing the economy – and little purchase on the center of the American electorate.