Shun the Middle of the Road

As Richard Weaver used to inquire, “Do you drive in the middle of the road?” No intelligent conservative can maintain, in the face of much historical evidence, that the good society is attained merely by splitting the political difference.

One of the best historical studies in this realm is a slim recent book by Dr. Vincent E. Starzinger, of Dartmouth College’s department of government. This is Middlingness: Juste Milieu Political Theory in France and England, 1815-48 (University Press of Virginia).

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As Richard Weaver used to inquire, “Do you drive in the middle of the road?” No intelligent conservative can maintain, in the face of much historical evidence, that the good society is attained merely by splitting the political difference.

One of the best historical studies in this realm is a slim recent book by Dr. Vincent E. Starzinger, of Dartmouth College’s department of government. This is Middlingness: Juste Milieu Political Theory in France and England, 1815-48 (University Press of Virginia).