I don’t think there’s a much of anything in Andrew’s take on British v. American conservatism that I would disagree with — though I would date the dawn of American-ideological conservatism’s rise just a bit later. I agree that FDR had a lot to do with it, but the anti-FDR “right” and the Right of William F. Buckley and the 1950s have a great many important differences. Indeed, the differences are probably more important — and numerous — than the similarities. But I agree entirely that American conservatism is more ideological, which is a source of its greatest strengths and some of its greatest shortcomings.