[Coeur de Lion]

Provides in a typical Buckleyesque fashion, what I consider to be, a good definition of conservatism.

[Nephi]

to confront directly the challenge of Soviet-based communism;

and oppose it with U.N. based communism?

[Jason Kauppinen]

"Conservatives (unlike anarchists, or Objectivists) know that sacrifices are necessary, even as diet is necessary for organic health. Exactly what it is necessary to forgo is always debatable. Some good men thought it wrong to go to war to end slavery, or to go to Congress to end Jim Crow. Conservatives correctly assumed, in 1955, that to resist the Soviet aggression meant such things as taxes and even a draft."

I would hope that this isn't an example of his best writing.

[elbucko]

a good definition of conservatism.

Yes it is. Thanks for the post.

[MonroeDNA]

I love WFB, including his fiction. He is a great statesman. That said....

All but the last paragraph boils down to the conservative position championing freedom to chose, at the individual level. Except for certain things, which we "Intuit..."

Although I dislike abortion immensely, I believe also should be an individual choice. Hopefully with lots of introspect.