Repairing the Right

The Cambridge Companion to Hayek, edited by Edward Feser (Cambridge, 358 pp., $29.99)

THE central question in American politics today is whether the great coalition of the Right—the Reagan alliance between libertarians and traditionalist conservatives-can be put back together. It is tempting to see the Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992) as a potential key figure in establishing a solid philosophical foundation for such a happy remarriage: Hayek, after all, wrote secular arguments for traditionalist policies and philosophy, and based them solidly on worldly evidence.

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S. T. Karnick

Mr. Karnick is the director of research for the Heartland Institute.

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The Cambridge Companion to Hayek, edited by Edward Feser (Cambridge, 358 pp., $29.99)

THE central question in American politics today is whether the great coalition of the Right—the Reagan alliance between libertarians and traditionalist conservatives-can be put back together. It is tempting to see the Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992) as a potential key figure in establishing a solid philosophical foundation for such a happy remarriage: Hayek, after all, wrote secular arguments for traditionalist policies and philosophy, and based them solidly on worldly evidence.