As a businessperson, shareholder or citizen, you probably favor low taxes, smaller rather than larger government, traditional families and a strong defense. You may even think such views are common-sense and rooted in life experience. Wrong, says a magazine editor who personifies liberalism until it hurts -- both him and his organization. He sees Americans as so bamboozled by ideas from the right, financed by "ultraconservative millionaires," that we've been softened to brainlessness. Never mind the liberalbias that oozes from campuses, movies and mainstream media. It's conservatism that leads us lambs astray, says Lewis H. Lapham. The editor of Harper's...