Conservative Encyclopedia Omits O’Reilly, Coulter, Norquist

Posted on Jun 21, 2006

From the N.Y. Times

American Conservatism: The encyclopedia is 997 pages long.

It seems that the editors of this massive tome have some taste and intellectual integrity.

N.Y. Times:

WASHINGTON, June 20 — It has red states and blond pundits; home schoolers and The Human Life Review; originalists, monetarists, federalists and evangelists; and no shortage of people named Kristol.

Now American conservatism can claim another mark of distinction: an encyclopedia all its own.

It is a big deal, in terms literal — 997 pages — and metaphorical. Few insults have stung the movement’s thinkers as much as the barb from Lionel Trilling, the literary critic, who said conservatives had no ideas, “just irritable mental gestures.”

A half-century later, 251 contributors have weighed in, not so irritably, with a four-pound response.

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