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Article: America's three rival schools of thinking right.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2005
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Byline: Gerald J. Russello, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
American conservatism is having its midlife crisis. More than five decades have passed
since the 1953 publication of Russell Kirk's landmark "The Conservative Mind" and the founding of National Review two years later, and the wear is perhaps beginning to show.
Conservatism is split as it has not been since its heady teen years, when right-wingers of every stripe, from neo-monarchists to devotees of Ayn Rand, jostled for position. Issues such as immigration, global capitalism, stem cell research, and the war in Iraq are forcing old alliances to be reevaluated and new ones to form.
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