Principles and Heresies

Conservatives in Pursuit of Truth

A correspondent in the May 16 issue of national review, commenting upon Russell Kirk’s article on John Stuart Mill and my rejoinder thereto, raises an issue of the most serious moment. My difference of opinion with Mr. Kirk on the place of the concept of liberty in political thought, he sees as representing a “fundamental—and irreconcilable—ideological division among those who call themselves conservatives.”