Michael Blowhard writes:

Dear Blowhards --

If you want to acquire an in-depth familiarity with how modern American conservatism became the thing that it is today, George Nash's "The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945" is the book to read. (It's buyable here.) But if what you want to do is sketch in the basics, you couldn't do better than Maxwell Goss' Right Reason interview with Nash: Part One, Part Two.

A while back (here), I wrote about how much I've gotten out of wrestling with rightie thought. And I interviewed Jim Kalb, who provided readers with an eye-opening explication of traditionalist conservatism: Part One, Part Two, Part Three. Jim blogs here.

Best,

Michael