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Article: What's Killing Conservatism.("The Death of Conservatism")(Book review)
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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THE DEATH OF CONSERVATISM BY SAM TANENHAUS, Random House, 123 pages, $17.00
Four days after Barack Obama's decisive victory in November 2008, I attended a conference at Yale University titled "The Next American Conservatism?" The conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute organized the conference in advance of the election--in the face of oncoming doom, as it were--to try to figure out what sort of conservatism might rise from the ashes. But although the intellectuals on the program seemed to take for granted that conservatism as we know it is dead, none of them ventured an opinion as to why it died, whether it deserved to die, or what was, or should be, ...