02.04.09
Sam has no idea how to diagnose us
I’d been considering for a couple of days writing a post about Sam Tanenhaus’s New Republic piece on conservatism’s death, but along comes Roger Kimball at Pajamas Media, articulating my reaction with characteristic incisiveness.
Tanenhaus’s piece is long. Parts of it are erudite. He invites the reader to take a big perspective, examining conservativism’s development from clear back to Edmund Burke. Ultimately, though, it demonstrates once again the vacuum in which effete East Coast lefty chin-strokers do their observing and thinking. He just plain doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He has no grasp of conservatism’s actual essence. Kimball shows why.
