200 Years Without Tradition

hierarchy of political concerns.nAmerican political conservatismnseems to lack philosophical conservatism'snsense of the tragedy of human existence.nOur business-oriented conservativenparty optimistically sought tonpopulate and to develop a continent---nand succeeded. It envisaged a society ofnvirtually unlimited opportunity andnmobility. For generations it dreamed ofnthe New Jerusalem isolated fromnEurope's . . .