What is Conservatism? edited by Frank S. Meyer

I finished What is Conservatism?, a collection of 13 essays edited by Frank S. Meyer, a volume demonstrating the fusion (and fission) of the conservative/libertarian alliance in the early 1960s.  Excluding essays by Stanley Parry and Stefan T. Possony, time is well-spent pouring through the book and analyzing its arguments.  Some quotes: Freedom, Tradition, Conservatism-Frank …

Doherty and Friedman

I’ve been busy with work, Henry Hazlitt and Kurt Vonnegut to write much of any substance.  In lieu of anything slightly original or badly plagiarized, I present Milton Friedman dissecting the myth of the free lunch, and an excerpt of Brian Doherty discussing conservatism and libertarianism. Radicals for Capitalism is Doherty’s fantastic book on the …