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Entry: Three Strategies for the Right Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/three_strategies_for_the_right#23177 Post contents: Along these lines, I have been looking for Paul Weyrich's letter of some years ago advocatinga return to the less glamorous, but even more necessary, work of converting the society, at the local level (one might say, starting at the personal, then the family, and then the local society). To this end, a movement not affiliated with a political party, but with clearly-articulated tenets, elaborated at the philosophical as well as the practical levels, is to my mind the best way to work. The current issue of "Modern Age" gets to some of this, and I highly recommend concluding article, by Claes Ryn, on the lack of high intellectual caliber in the movement at the moment; surely excluding our writers here, of course. I think that there are actually little cells of traditionally-minded folks out there now, operating in many cases independently, who might be amenable to increased cooperation with each other if introduced with a spirit of cameraderie rather than our more usual intra-traditional sniping. To a certain extent the Rockford INstitute Summer School and other programs do this already, for a very limited group: while traditional Catholics predominate, there are also some good conservative Lutherans and Orthodox who are well-accepted. It might also be helpful to pay more attention to the attempts of Orthodox and Catholics to make common ground on societal matters in Europe: I think of Orthodox Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev's work in particular here, but there are many others. It would help us to see how others of more or less like mind are doing things. Sent at: 2008 10 13