Rod Dreher writes:

What’s the greatest challenge facing American conservatives today? Liberalism? Don’t I wish. That would be relatively easy to defeat. No, it’s capitalism. You read that right. Conservatives have to come to terms with the fact that capitalism, in its current form, undermines not only the virtues necessary to the kind of society conservatives claim to want, but ultimately risks subverting itself. …. In his new book, Consumed, political scientist Benjamin Barber writes that ours is the first society that acts as if its survival depends on keeping maturity – which involves learning to master one’s impulses – at bay. There is little in American political, religious, social or economic life that prizes restraint and sacrifice for a higher purpose. “This strategy makes good commercial sense,” writes Mr. Barber, because of the market’s need “to sell unnecessary goods to people whose adult judgment and tastes are obstacles.

I got the quote via Michael Moynihan at Reason, who has thoughts on it all. Brian Doherty thinks he found even more evidence of the new convergence.