The Patriotism of a Conservative‪.‬

Editor's Note: The theme of "Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism" was first announced in the Summer 2005 issue of Modern Age. The Fall 2005 issue featured Professor George W. Carey's "The Future of Conservatism," which has distinctly engaged both concerned readers and traditionalist conservatives. The very next issue (Winter 2006), with the publication of Dr. Arthur Versluis's "The Revolutionary Conservatism of Jefferson's Small Republics," Professor James Patrick Dimock's "Rediscovering the Heroic Conservatism of Richard M. Weaver," and Professor Stephen Bertman's "The Perils of America's Progress," further enlarged, directly or indirectly, the critical intentions of the theme of restoration. The current issue of Modern Age both continues and specifies the problem, and the challenge, posed in "Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism." Clearly this is a problem that does not lessen or dissolve as the following three pieces of writing disclose: Bruce P. Frohnen's "The Patriotism of a Conservative"; Jude P. Dougherty's "The Fragility of Democracy"; and Paul Gottfried's "The Conservative Movement in Discontinuity," which explicitly return to and further broaden Carey's argument.