Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
     The Old Right
1
Southern Agrarians and the Defense of Region
2
Monarch as Alternative
xi
1
5
9
16
Seward Collins
3
Radical Individualism: The State as Enemy
29
Albert Jay Nock
4
Conservatism Takes Shape: Human Events
      Classical Liberalism
5
Resurrecting the Abandoned Road
45
49
53
F. A. Hayek
6
Getting Together
66
Mont Pelerin Society
7
Defining Principles: Capitalism and Freedom
68
Milton Friedman
       Traditionalism
8
The Quest for Order
91
95
Richard M. Weaver
9
The Conservative Mind
107
Russell Kirk
vii
viii
Contents
10
A Rebel in Search of Tradition
122
Frank S. Meyer
      Anticommunism
11
A Witness
131
135
Whittaker Chambers
12
The Communist Mind
149
Gerhart Niemeyer
13
Khrushchev at the UN: The Damage We Have Done
to Ourselves
161
William F. Buckley, Jr.
14
The Hungary Pledge
     Fusion
15
A Rebel Finds His Tradition
167
169
171
Frank S. Meyer
16
Why I Am Not a Conservative
180
F. A. Hayek
17
National Review: Statement of Intentions
195
William F. Buckley, Jr.
18
National Review: Credenda and Statement
of Principles
201
William F. Buckley, Jr.
      The Plunge into Politics
19
The Conscience of a Conservative
207
211
Barry M. Goldwater
20
The Young Americans for Freedom
226
William F. Buckley, Jr.
21
The Sharon Statement
229
22
A Choice, Not an Echo
231
Phyllis Schlafly
Contents
23
Extremism in the Defense of Liberty: The Republican
National Convention Acceptance Address
ix
238
Barry M. Goldwater
       Libertarianism
247
24
The Libertarian Review: Editorial Statement
251
25
Why Be Libertarian?
253
Murray N. Rothbard
26
Libertarianism or Libertinism?
259
Frank S. Meyer
27
What Is Libertarianism?
262
Murray N. Rothbard
        New Rights
28
An Emerging Conservative Majority
275
279
William A. Rusher
29
Message from MARs: The Social Politics of the
New Right
300
Samuel Francis
30
Why Big Business Is Good for America
318
Irving Kristol
      The Reagan Era
31
The Great Communicator: Three Speeches
337
341
Ronald Reagan
32
Looking Backward at the Gipper
362
George Will
33
Why I Am Not a Neoconservative
373
Stephen J. Tonsor
34
Of What Use Is Tradition?
Gregory Wolfe
379
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Conservative Splits
383
Dan Himmelfarb
     Conservatism after Reagan
36
A Republic, Not an Empire
395
401
Patrick J. Buchanan
37
Beautiful Losers: Why Conservatism Failed
414
Samuel Francis
38
Contract with America
424
Newt Gingrich
39
An Open Letter to Conservatives
428
Paul Weyrich
40
What’s Right: Policy Review Defines the Limits
of Conservatism
432
Notes
Index
About the Editor
437
445
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