Know Your Enemy

By Kleinheider Posted on April 30, 2008 at 4:07 pm

Daniel McCarthy sees some promise in a New Republic blogger’s suggestion to young leftists that they study the history of conservatism:

Ironically enough, if liberals take up YoungSmith’s challenge, they might quickly find themselves knowing more about the Right than the typical movement conservative does. And who knows? If they approach the history with an open mind — not what YoungSmith recommends, to be sure — they might come not only to understand the difference between conservatism and the conservative movement but to find something attractive in the former.

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