I actually thought of that when I posted, but could not remember his name...wasn’t he a writer for the National Review back in the ‘70s?
I actually thought of that when I posted, but could not remember his name...wasn’t he a writer for the National Review back in the ‘70s?Yes, he was a frequent contributor to NR clear through the '70's, if I remember correctly. He left to become a member of Margaret Thatcher's inner circle.
I have a theory that O'Sullivan's First Law is really just the Second Law of thermodynamics, applied to politics. That is to say, liberalism is simply the result of the breakdown of the organizing principles of civilization. This breakdown process creates its own constituencies, which lobby, agitate and do sabotage in order to further the breakdown process. The net effect is to make it ever more difficult to carry out the organization, ranking, and correction processes that are necessry to make a stable and self-propagating civiliztion.
In short, liberalism is entropy in politics.