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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
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by magnu231
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First off, I will admit that I didn't know much about Nofziger until I started poking around today. I think what you wrote about the students not paying much attention to him is part of a broader problem among young conservatives: those same students probably screamed like it was Beatlemania all over again for Ann Coulter. Conservatism generally entails some respect for "old" ideas. Now, they may be exposed to these ideas through Sean Hannity and Michelle Malkin (or, unfortunately, in their opinion, Bill O'Reilly), but how many go any "deeper" than that? I'm guessing that name recognition for guys like Russell Kirk, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Whittaker Chambers, Edmund Burke (really reaching back), or Robert Nisbet, would be close to nil. Granted, not all of those were conservatives, some avowedly not, but they all contributed to the American conservative (and libertarian) "movement". I'm not perfect, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm working on it, law school reading be damned.
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