Rod – Don’t worry, I’m not re-opening our old spat, but I should note that Chambers expressly rejected the label conservative, preferring to describe himself as a “man of the Right.” It didn’t have much to do with the fact he had a farm and loved it dearly and a lot to do with his Hegelian view of his history. He called this the “Beaconsfield position” in honor of Benjamin Disraeli.

You could call him a Crunchy Dialiectician, but that trips off the tongue a bit more clumsily.