If You Were Curious …
12th February 2015
John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, answers some frequently asked questions.
Someone—I think it was the late Larry Auster—said that there is no such thing as a right. There is a left, and it’s been pretty consistently the same across time and space, in all countries and at all times, at any rate since the French Revolution.
There is nothing that solid and consistent on the other side, only an anti-left with many factions, some of them wildly different from each other: libertarians, traditionalists, nationalists, Randian atheists, evangelical Christians …
My vague feeling is: sell libertarianism, buy nationalism. I’m not much of a stock-picker, though.