The Straggler: Long Island Easter

indeed, the author of The Conservative Mind, which remains today a genuine masterpiece and modem conservatism’s foundational text—was subjected in his time to such incendiary attack from within the movement.

But beneath the intellectual bloodshed there are, of course, deeper truths. And we would do well to recall the words of Dan Himmelfarb, in a 1988 Commentary essay (also reprinted in this anthology):

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John Derbyshire

Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.

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indeed, the author of The Conservative Mind, which remains today a genuine masterpiece and modem conservatism’s foundational text—was subjected in his time to such incendiary attack from within the movement.

But beneath the intellectual bloodshed there are, of course, deeper truths. And we would do well to recall the words of Dan Himmelfarb, in a 1988 Commentary essay (also reprinted in this anthology):