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Entry: Wolfe's Howl Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/wolfes_folly#1994 Post contents: Dr. Gottfried - "If Kirk is guilty of reading too much of European conservatism into the American founding, Wolfe goes even farther in the other direction, by assuming that the American Constitution from the beginning prepared the way for the kind of left-liberal regime that he fancies." I suspect your soon to be released book will address this, but what are you suggesting? That the American “Founding” really was predominantly classically liberal? I understand your issues with the nomenclature, but then are you defending classical liberalism? Or are you suggesting a classical conservatism that never really existed here or was poorly defined/articulated by Kirk and others? Some liberal/conservative combination? Something else? I think the overt religiousness that you speak of among other things argues against the “Founding” being purely classically liberal. The rhetoric was certainly more so than the “facts on the ground.” Sent at: 2008 07 08