So, my view on “Crunchy Conservatism” has shifted from annoyed/slightly amused, to simply angry when I read this in Jonah Goldberg’s excellent column in National Review: “Dreher embraces a smorgasbord of popular liberal-Left assumptions about the environment, organic foods, and what-not and says that, since he’s a good conservative, these things must be conservative too. This narcissism caused him to support a pro-choice liberal Democrat over Joe Barton, the incumbent pro-life conservative in his congressional district, because Barton is ’soft’ on pollution” (emphasis mine).

And John O’Sullivan, in the same issue, adds that Dreher and friends argue that “conservative support for free markets should be tempered by concern for nature, family life, religion, and social stability. My sense is that conservatism, as opposed to libertarianism, has always accepted such limits to pure capitalist competition” (emphasis mine).

Well said.

Hello bloggers:

I would like to take advantage of this glorious Sunday and direct your attention to the newest edition of the GW Patriot

Yours truly has an article on the Roosevelt Institution that you might want to check out, especially if you’re still in college.