The Great Eflorescence of Conservatism in the American Context

The great efflorescence of conservative intellectual production was, i think, a reaction to the total mobilization of society during the war. Peter viri's conservatism revisited in 19 forty nine is very much motivated by the idea that western civilization has lost its philosophical moorings and political moorings. And therefore it needs to look for something more substantial than the liberalism of the new deal or manchester school liberalism.