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Entry: Is There Conservatism Beyond Christianity? (or how to book a mental vacation in Athens or Valhalla) Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/is_there_conservatism_beyond_christianity_or_how_to_book_a_mental_vacation#23225 Post contents: "Unfortunately, most Protestants and Catholics alike have been infected with the post-Enlightenment 'universal human rights' ideology." One problem is that the Catholic paleocons stopped thinking about natural law, leaving the turf entirely to airhead neocons. Granted, tradition transcends ordinary rationalty, but rationality remains part of the tradition. It is as if the paleocons cannot tell Thomist from neo-Thomist. You see this mistake even in the great Russell Kirk, who seems to have prized imagination and habit in conservatism, but not memory and scholastics. Thomas Fleming, who no doubt loves the classics, talks this way as well. Sent at: 2008 08 21