Last Friday, Amity Shlaes reviewed Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by New York Times writer David Leonhardt. In his book’s detailing of the economic and social distress Donald Trump called “American carnage” and its advocating centralized, statist solutions à la the New Deal, Leonhardt has performed a useful service -- for a certain political group.

The group consists of those who claim to be on the right yet reject Reagan-Buckley conservatism, especially those among them who identify as “national conservatives.” And Leonhardt’s service is to “draw out some of their conclusions” on those matters, especially ...

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‘National Conservatism’ Isn’t Winning

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16.11.2023

Last Friday, Amity Shlaes reviewed Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by New York Times writer David Leonhardt. In his........

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