Less Boilerplate, More Symmetry

Kim Phillips-Fein is to be commended for rendering a valuable service to the historical profession by tracing and reflecting on the trajectory of and prospects for historical scholarship on American conservatism, !he fruits of her bibliographical labors alone would have made the exercise well worth undertaking and would make the essay a valuable resource for ongoing scholarship on this subject. [...] the complaint of so many "paleoconservatives" that neoconservatives are, in George H. Nash's term, right-wing liberals - a complaint that has some validity but misses the point by seeking an imperishable essence of "conservatism."