[Tax-chick]

Gelernter, later.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Definitely a good read....just later.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Disraeli had deliberately driven the jalopy of Toryism off a cliff. It was a cool 28 years before the Conservatives once again commanded a clear House of Commons majority. That gave him the time he needed to refashion the wreckage into a new kind of Toryism.

The Democrats need a Disraeli.

[perfect stranger]

bump for later.

[NZerFromHK]

My random observations on this article:

1) Disraeli was, at least, a conservative in the Anglo tradition. There is a difference between British conservatism as traditionally understood and those of US founding principles. He was a mixture of unabashed imperialist and follow-the-spirit-of-the-ages type of do-liberal-policies conservative. For a country with a defined principles as stands, it is not wise to blind copy from a politician coming from such an alien political culture.

2) This is one of the characters you can stuck back at the British anti-American leftists when they rant on imperialism and Bush etc. Other names include Joseph Chamberlain, Rudyard Kipling, etc.

3) Do today's British youths - the vulgar generation, who know nothing but sex, David Beckham, cannbis-legalization, The Verve, the Osbornes, Kyoto Protocol's feel-good appearance, really know who Disraeli was?