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Fiction contemporary conservative intellec- tuals. Unlike so many non-conserva- tive writers he seems to have a genuine respect for conservative thought (or at least he says he has), but his analysis is so general that he never gets around to saying any- thing important about his subject. When writing about Frank Meyer (whom he mistakenly declares to be

‘the reincarnation of the late Albert Jay Nock) and Richard Weaver—con- servatives he claims to have some respect for—he gives the impression of not really having read their books. He can speak knowingly (with great condescension) of modern laissez- faire economics without ever men- tioning Milton Friedman or his Chi- cago school. The deficiencies are le- gion, and one tires of recounting them. The reader ends his labor, non- plussed by the monumental irrele- vance of Professor Guttmann’s book.

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Fiction contemporary conservative intellec- tuals. Unlike so many non-conserva- tive writers he seems to have a genuine respect for conservative thought (or at least he says he has), but his analysis is so general that he never gets around to saying any- thing important about his subject. When writing about Frank Meyer (whom he mistakenly declares to be

‘the reincarnation of the late Albert Jay Nock) and Richard Weaver—con- servatives he claims to have some respect for—he gives the impression of not really having read their books. He can speak knowingly (with great condescension) of modern laissez- faire economics without ever men- tioning Milton Friedman or his Chi- cago school. The deficiencies are le- gion, and one tires of recounting them. The reader ends his labor, non- plussed by the monumental irrele- vance of Professor Guttmann’s book.