[KDD]

May I recommend that you read 'Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present'
edited by Jerry Z. Muller

It traces the roots of modern(so to speak)Conservative thought.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

And I recommend you read on the Science Wars that are being fought against post-modernism (modernism so-to-speak).

A good starting place is Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt