Conservatism in the English-speaking world has gotten a bad rap for the last, oh, say, 200 years. Ever since the Romantics decided that real artists needed to shatter society's conventions for the sake of shattering them and essentially thumb their noses at time-honored customs and morals, most anyone claiming to be hip, edgy or just plain cool has been assumed be a liberal. In other words, the nose-ring crowd is on the Left, and those complacent, hypocritical, SUV-driving, suburban-living, bourgeois stuffed-shirts get shunted onto the Right. The Clinton years only highlighted and deepened this divide. Despite the fact that most ...