Varieties Of Conservatism In America

by Berkowitz, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780817945725
• ISBN10: 0817945725
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780817945732
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
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Summary

The essays in this volume demonstrate that the debate among conservatives about which principles and practices are most urgently in need of protection is also a debate with the larger liberalism that undergrids the American constitutional order. The essays suggest as well that this larger liberalism, with its bedrock devotion to individual liberty and equality before the law, serves as the common ground on which the contending camps within conservatism-and indeed conservatives in their contentions with progressives-can come together, debate civilly, and discover ways to advance the public good.

Author Biography

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he chairs the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law. He was cofounder and director of the Israel Program on Constitutional Government, has served as a senior consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics, and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
Peter Berkowitz
PART I: CLASSICAL CONSERVATISM
Understanding Traditionalist Conservatism	3	(28)
Mark C. Henrie
Social Conservatism and the New Fusionism	31	(20)
Joseph Bottum
PART II: LIBERTARIANISM
The Moral Foundations of Modern Libertarianism	51	(24)
Randy E. Barnett
Libertarianism and Character	75	(30)
Richard A. Epstein
PART III: NEOCONSERVATIVISM
The Neoconservative Journey	105	(24)
Jacob Heilbrunn
Neoconservatism's Liberal Legacy	129	(30)
Tod Lindberg
Index	159