He would have to be both fox, knowing everything, and hedgehog, knowing only one big thing-the essence of conservatism. He would have to be historian, biographer, and philosopher, all at the same time. He would have to have a photographic memory that could call up key passages from dozens of books and authors. He would have to possess a transcendent mind like Einstein’s that sees connections where others cannot. He would have to be a master synthesizer of politics, philosophy, and culture spanning almost two centuries. The possibility that one person could write The Conservative Mind, a sweeping history of conservative thought in America and Great Britain from the mid-eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, seems unlikely. This essay appears in the Fall 2017 issue of Modern Age.
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