Conservative Encyclopedia Omits O’Reilly, Coulter, Norquist
It seems that the editors of this massive tome have some taste and intellectual integrity.It seems that the editors of this massive tome have some taste and intellectual integrity.
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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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