To review Crunchy Cons for NR! She writes in the context of the ongoing Stillman debate:
The basic point, though, is that we need to get out of the habit of confusing life-style with politics, even though we routinely make one a proxy for the other, and even though lifestyle markers provide a very effective way of finding and targeting partisans in electoral contests. Daniel Bell, in The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, described himself as “a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture.” There are people for whom such distinctions still matter.
On this narrow but very basic point, Garance and I are on the same page.






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