Wednesday, February 22, 2006

The New Counterculture

George H. Nash in The Wall Street Journal reviews Crunchy Cons by Rod Dreher.
It is a reminder of the enduring tension on the right between those for whom the highest social good is freedom--the emancipation of the self from statist restraint and oppressive custom--and those for whom the highest social good is virtue: the formation of character, the cultivation of the soul.

For the occasion, National Review has added Crunchy Cons, "The blog for Birkenstocked Burkeans and those who love them."