Rick – Lord knows I’m sympathetic with your position. I wasn’t looking for ideological conservatism or anything like that. Just sort of the classics of literature which appeal to the eternal verities and that sort of thing. One of the reasons I don’t have any definitive answers is that, like you, I’ve never really read fiction for its “conservative” insights, but rather for its insights, pure and simple. Still, don’t, say, Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy represent a kind of small-c conservatism worth mentioning? Don’t Heinlein or Walker Percy have views of human nature which gibe with the conservative spirit?