Principles and Heresies

A CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION

PIPRINCIPLES AND HERESIES On balance, the Republican Convention was a miracle of sanity in a madly ideological world. Despite the pressures from intellectual fashion, from the media, from a considerable faction within the Convention itself, two themes emerged more and more clearly as the days wore by—both grounded in reality, both reflecting the deep beliefs of the great majority of Americans, and both anathema to the ideology-mongers whose political heroes are Eugene McCarthy and John Lindsay.

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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A CONSERVATIVE CONVENTION

PIPRINCIPLES AND HERESIES On balance, the Republican Convention was a miracle of sanity in a madly ideological world. Despite the pressures from intellectual fashion, from the media, from a considerable faction within the Convention itself, two themes emerged more and more clearly as the days wore by—both grounded in reality, both reflecting the deep beliefs of the great majority of Americans, and both anathema to the ideology-mongers whose political heroes are Eugene McCarthy and John Lindsay.