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Article: The Vision of Richard Weaver.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 29, 1996
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The Vision of Richard Weaver, edited by Joseph Scotchie (Transaction, 239 pp., $39.95)
I am one of those people who cleans his house only when friends are coming over. That's the same fix conservatives are in today, except for one important difference. It has been so many years since they've had company that they don't know how their house should look. In more eloquent terms, A. J. Bacevich writes that "the omnium-gatherum of values currently passing for 'conservative' is laced with inconsistencies and contradictions -- contradictions most evident to the observer perched on the seam where tradition meets modernity, or where culture collides with grand prescriptions ...