Always look forward to this forum. Thank you so much. I have a question that is unrelated ot the morning talk shows but I did not know how go go about asking it on this forum. I do think that someone here will know the answer. Last week, Rush L's replacement interviewed a gentleman who talked about a book written by a conservative thinker in 1964. It layed out the deep differences between the left and the right and included a simple test based on rating for values "LIBERTY, FREEDOM, JUSTICE, PEACE" that discriminated between concervatives, libertarians and liberals with a high degree of accuracy. I would be very, very, very, very, grateful if someone could e-mail me the title of the book and the name of the author.
I remember the reference, but do not remember the book or author. I checked Rush's web site, but did not see it there, either.
Maybe Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater, but it was published before he ran in 1964.
Remember that, was facinated too, spent a while mulling the permutations myself. Decided I was Libertarian. (Surprise! Not.)
He only mentioned the source in the beginning and I didn't catch, but I believe it was a Political Science Professor's book, Maybe run searches at Amazon? If you find out, Frepmail me, I want to know too.
I haven't read through this entire thread, but I will comment on the book you asked about.
"Suicide of the West" by James Burnham. Libraries usually have a copy deep in their stacks.
He was a conservative in the early days of Wm Buckley's National Review. I think he had been a socialist or communist sympathizer in the 30s who saw the error of that scenario.
At any rate, his essay on the ranking of those four words is profound. Any time I hear an organization stress Justice and/or Peace, I know they are leftist. Freedom and/or Liberty are conservative ideals.