“I think the attenuation of the early principles of this country has made America vulnerable to the most opportunistic ideology of the day, the strange and complex ideology of modern Liberalism. I think, moreover, that disordered and confused though it concededly is these days, conservatism is the only apparent rallying point.”
With that straightforward statement of his thesis, having been eloquently introduced by John Dos Passos, William F. Buckley Jr. launches headlong into his new book, Up from Liberalism (McDowell, Obolensky, $3.50). And in the course of the next 200 pages, he ably fulfills his two separate goals: first, to discredit doctrinaire Liberalism, and second, to plead the viability of enlightened conservatism.
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