Tom Linehan
2008-03-03 07:29:18
I too have read the book, at least most of it. I agree that much of what Jonah Goldberg writes applies as much to the left as it does to the right. But he defines the right as Classical Liberals. If you accept that definition his thesis holds. The trust in spontaneous order of Classical Liberals is in no way authoritarian. If his thesis, that the Classical Liberals constitute the entire right were true, conservatives would win almost no elections. As a Classical Liberal, I seldom have a successful conservative Republican candidate to any office whom I consider a Classical Liberal especially at the national level.
