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Entry: What is Paleoconservatism? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/what_is_paleoconservatism#27790 Post contents: Ravia Batra?!? The author of the Great Depression of the 1990s? The fact that this guy still has a job is a scandal. That said, I think paleconservatives have always been a bit more "bit tent" as far as the free market/pro-worker industrial policy question. Even small government libertarians prioritize culture and the nation and its integrity above abstract concern for the economy, and their concern for free markets is as much moral and cultural as it is concerned with economic efficiency. As for our Protestant founders, I'll have more to say on this, but as a Thomist I believe even Pagans can get most of natural morality suitable for social life correct using natural reason, and while I think America's Protestant culture had certain defects, it also had many virtues, employed natural reason to achieve a very sound moral consensus, the group as a whole embraced what C.S. Lewis called "Mere Christianity." It presented a congenial and tolerant environment for Catholics, and, this was no small achievement considering the recent religious wars on the Continent. Sent at: 2008 11 20