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The (Guilty) Conscience of a Conservative By Craig Schiller Arlington, 174 pp., $8.95 Craig Schiller has read widely in the literature of conservatism and pondered deeply what he has read. A 37-year-old Hasidic rabbi, Schiller has the educational background and powers of analysis necessary to understand and distinguish among the various strands of American conservative thought, and in this work he gives us a guided tour of what he conceives these to be, then tells us. why conservatism has failed and how it might hope to prevail.

The book’s largely meaningless title and often flippant chapter headings do it less than justice. This slim volume is no threat to George Nash’s massive and magisterial The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945, but in its chatty way it has a good deal to say that is stimulating and incisive.

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The (Guilty) Conscience of a Conservative By Craig Schiller Arlington, 174 pp., $8.95 Craig Schiller has read widely in the literature of conservatism and pondered deeply what he has read. A 37-year-old Hasidic rabbi, Schiller has the educational background and powers of analysis necessary to understand and distinguish among the various strands of American conservative thought, and in this work he gives us a guided tour of what he conceives these to be, then tells us. why conservatism has failed and how it might hope to prevail.

The book’s largely meaningless title and often flippant chapter headings do it less than justice. This slim volume is no threat to George Nash’s massive and magisterial The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945, but in its chatty way it has a good deal to say that is stimulating and incisive.