What is Left? What is Right?

The American Conservative asks

1. Are the designations “liberal” and “conservative” still useful? Why or why not?

2. Does a binary Left/Right political spectrum describe the full range of ideological options? Is it still applicable?

Andrew J. Bacevich, Jeremy Beer, Austin Bramwell, Patrick J. Buchanan, John Derbyshire, Ross Douthat, Rod Dreher, Mary Eberstadt, Nick Gillespie, Paul Gottfried, Jeffrey Hart, Nicholas von Hoffman, James Kurth, Michael Lind, John Lukacs, Heather Mac Donald, Scott McConnell, Kevin Phillips, James P. Pinkerton, Justin Raimondo, Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., Claes G. Ryn, Kirkpatrick Sale, Phyllis Schlafly, Fred Siegel, Taki Theodoracopulos, Philip Weiss, Chilton Williamson Jr., Clyde N. Wilson, and John Zmirak respond.