Historic Quote of the Day
Mar. 1st, 2008 11:21 pmNoted in an article in praise of the recently deceased William F. Buckley, Jr. who helped to define modern conservatism and then successfully evangelized it.
"In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation." - Lionel Trilling (1950)
"In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation." - Lionel Trilling (1950)