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Up from Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America, by Michael Lind (Free Press, 295 pp., $23)

ONE of the most popular American literary forms is the escape narrative, from Moby Dick to Confessions of a Nun. In Michael Lind’s Up from Conservatism, the City of Destruction is the conservative movement. From the mid Eighties to the early Nineties, Mr. Lind was a player on the Right. Now he only is escaped alone to tell us how grim it was.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Up from Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong for America, by Michael Lind (Free Press, 295 pp., $23)

ONE of the most popular American literary forms is the escape narrative, from Moby Dick to Confessions of a Nun. In Michael Lind’s Up from Conservatism, the City of Destruction is the conservative movement. From the mid Eighties to the early Nineties, Mr. Lind was a player on the Right. Now he only is escaped alone to tell us how grim it was.