The Helpful Persuasion Revolt From the Heartland: The Struggle for an Authentic Conservatism By Joseph Scotchie, Transaction Publishers 2002 Review by Ryan McMaken Thomas Fleming once noted that he was struck, while reading about the American right prior to the Cold War, that there was a certain "admirable diversity and freedom of discussion" (to use Murray Rothbard's words) on the American right, and that there was no person or publication demanding adherence to a party line or "excommunicating" heretics who failed to live up to the demands of some self-appointed leader of the movement. This freedom of discussion, of course,...