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The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back - Book review
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Sullivan's travels.
THE CONSERVATIVE SOUL: HOW WE LOST IT, How To GET IT BACK by ANDREW SULLIVAN HarperCollins, 304 pages, $25.95
ANDREW SULLIVAN'S MOST evident theme is that there are two kinds of conservatism struggling with each other: Sullivan's kind and the perilous kind that is the nemesis of all that is good. The bad kind, "fundamentalist conservatism," combines a rigid, puritanical, and self-righteous psyche--instantiated in the Republican party under George W. Bush--with the "theoconservatism" he assigns to such people as Richard John Neuhaus, George Weigel, Robert George (and natural-law theorists in general), and James Dobson. Today's Republican party, he argues, is perhaps the first fundamentally religious party in American history. Sullivan signed on in the 1980s to a conservatism he thought emphasized freedom ...See the full content of this document
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