Jonah, by using that phrase I was actually referring to the hostility to American-style democracy — the frank elitism that is probably more a feature of the sort of conservatism espoused by T.S. Eliot and Yeats but was certainly a feature of, say, Allen Tate’s thinking. As for Russell Kirk’s tie, that’s purely a generational thing. My father would not go out of the house tieless even on the weekends when I was a kid, lest he run into someone on the street.