◼ THE NEXT CONSERVATIVES? - Stephen Hayward/Powerline
Lots of chatter on the blogosphere about ◼ David Brooks’s NY Times column yesterday on “The Conservative Future,” in which he singles out for special recognition several younger writers and thinkers on the right such as Ramesh Ponnuru, Reihan Salam, Jim Manzi, Megan McArdle, and Yuval Levin, among others. Brooks also gives a partial typology of the various camps on the Right, starting with the “Paleoconservatives” who could be said to champion the Burkean tradition, along with “soft libertarians,” and “lower middle reformists,” a heretofore un-self-identified category.
I agree with Brooks with his enthusiasm for just about everyone on his list, many of whom I know fairly well....
NEW POWER LINE SERIES: THE BASIS OF LEFT AND RIGHT
◼ PART 1
◼ PART 2: (HUMAN) NATURE, CONVENTION, AND LIBERTY
◼ PART 3: EQUALITY
◼ PART 4: MORAL REASONING (OR KANT VS. ARISTOTLE AGAIN)
