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The Crisis in Conservatism

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The end of the Cold War has brought a deep crisis to the conservative movement in America. For over four decades, the communist threat was the glue that bound conservatives together. However, now that communism no longer poses a direct threat to the United States, deep cracks have appeared in the conservative movement. Why? The reason is that conservatives have abandoned the moral and philosophical principles that once undergirded the conservative philosophy. For example, consider the political battle over immigration and trade policies that took place between Patrick Buchanan and George Bush. For many decades, Buchanan had railed against the Soviet communists for building the Berlin Wall and raising the Iron Curtain. People have a right to travel and trade, Buchanan had repeatedly told the Soviets. It is evil and immoral to wall them in. But the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Iron Curtain caught Buchanan off guard. For while people were now free to ...

Forward to the Past: From Central Planning to the Redistributive State

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At the dawn of the 20th century, in 1899, the French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon looked into the future and described "the immediate fate of the nation which shall first see the triumph of Socialism....The people will of course commence by despoiling and then shooting a few thousands of employers, capitalists, and members of the wealthy class.... Intelligence and ability will be replaced by mediocrity. The equality of servitude will be established everywhere.... Servitude, misery, and Caesarism are the fatal precipices to which all the roads of the Socialists lead.... It will be hell, a terrible hell." But even the most perceptive critics of the socialist idea could not anticipate the magnitude of the hell that socialism would produce. In his recent book Lethal Politics: Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917, R.J. ...

The Constitution and the Rule of Law

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In 1944, Friedrich A. Hayek wrote one of the most thought-provoking books of our time — The Road to Serfdom. Hayek warned that Great Britain and the United States were abandoning their heritage of liberty and adopting the economic principles of the Nazis, fascists, and socialists. It was not a message which the politicians, bureaucrats, and social planners of that time wanted to hear. Hayek, who would later win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Science, was vilified as an old-fashioned reactionary. No one today can seriously dispute that Hayek was right. Although Americans, for example, continue to operate under the delusion that they live in a free-enterprise nation, for the last sixty years they have traveled the same moral, philosophical, and economic mad as their enemies — the road to the welfare-state, regulated-economy way ...