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Entry: A Paleo Epitaph Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_paleo_epitaph#22767 Post contents: As Paul has astutely written in his recent book, what passes for US conservatism today is rootless, a factor which explains its slow death. Looking at the two dozen portraits on the front cover of George Nash's postwar history of US conservatism, a reader could be forgiven for making gloomy prognostications about the future of the Right: half of these rightists were either repentant former communists or emigres from Europe, and a third of the total were Catholic traditionalists. As Sam Francis once pointed out, it was hard to imagine a band of thinkers less likely to command mass loyalties in an overwhelmingly Protestant nation. My best advice to my fellow paleos is to avoid building castles in the air (as the "Red Tories" of my native Canada do, yearning for the restoration of dead ruling classes)and defend what is left of our individual freedoms against the managerial state. Sent at: 2008 05 15