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Entry: The Impresario Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_impresario#18470 Post contents: I am grateful to Professor Hart for reminding us in this essay (and his fine history of NR) that at one time US conservatism was not a monolithic force. Frank Meyer's dream of "fusionism" (bringing together libertarianism and traditionalism) reflected the fact that there was more intellectual diversity on the right than anywhere else on the ideological spectrum. Where else but the early NR could one find Rousseauvian populism (Kendall), Burkean traditionalism (Kirk), classical liberalism (Meyer), or Realpolitik (Burnham)all jostling against each other in the same magazine? No single faction ever legitimately owned the conservative movement, a lesson to both neocons and libertarians. May diversity reign! Sent at: 2008 11 21