What Is At Stake In The Debate

The Revival Of The Right Is As Extraordinary As It Would Be If The Public Had Demanded Dozens Of New Nuclear Plants In The Days After The Three Mile Island Disaster; If We Had Reacted To Watergate By Making Richard Nixon A National Hero.

Conservatism Is Not A Doctrine Of Contentment. Not A Doctrine For The Satisfied And The Smug. It's A Politics That's At War With The World.

In The Last James Bond Movie, The Villain Was A Culture Captain, A Tycoon Of Culture, A Murdoch Figure. It's Not As If People Don't Know What Is Going On.

Vibrancy Is So Universally Desirable, So Totemic In Its Powers, That Even Though We Aren't Sure What The Word Means, We Know The Quality It Designates Must Be Cultivated. The Vibrant, We Believe, Is What Makes Certain Cities Flourish.

Bad Government Is The Natural Product Of Rule By Those Who Believe Government Is Bad.