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The state of conservatism

Alex Stoner and Eric Lybeck (Tennessee): Bringing Authoritarianism Back In: Reification, Latent Prejudice, and Economic Threat. Walter Block (Loyola): David Friedman and Libertarianism: A Critique. Alan Wolfe reviews The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin (and more and more and more and more and more). The discrediting of good intentions: Michael Doliner on conservative intellectuals and the invisible hand. Are questions of war and peace merely one issue among many for libertarians? A review of Edmund Burke For Our Time: Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics by William Byrne. From CRB, a review of The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends by Daniel Mahoney; and a review of The Conservative Assault on the Constitution by Erwin Chemerinsky. Jacob Heilbrunn on the Claremont Institute, Ron Paul, and the state of conservatism. From Breakthrough Journal, Steven Hayward on modernizing conservatism. The greening of conservatism: What ever happened to the Birkenstocked Burkeans? Here is an introduction to a "bleeding heart" history of libertarian thought — and if Herbert Spencer was no Social Darwinist, then what was he, and why have so many people misinterpreted his views? A review of Nozick's Libertarian Project: An Elaboration and Defense by Mark Friedman. What in the hell is a paleo? Paul Gottfried wants to know. The Tea Party, "constitutional conservatives" in name only: The right-leaning populist movement embraces the Founders' vision — except when it comes to national security, civil liberties and foreign affairs. What book is considered to be the opposite of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged? The Right Word: ConservativeSpeak has so infiltrated the language that we now need a glossary.