Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jazz musician Billy Tipton never gave his Social Security number to his booking agent. He never went swimming with his three adopted sons. Though he became seriously ill, he never visited a doctor. Last week, four days after Tipton, 74, died from a bleeding ulcer in Spokane, a funeral director told one of the musician's sons the reason for his odd behavior: Tipton was a woman...
...million, recalls Christopher Bancroft, was like winning an elephant in a raffle: "I didn't know what the hell to do with it." Laura, a fourth-generation Rockefeller whose maiden name is hidden behind two marriages, remembers her family's vast compound as a "verdant cage." A psychiatric social worker, she happily gives away her inherited income to favorite causes like the Children's Defense Fund...
...truth of the matter is that while much in America is good, much is not. The fact that minorities, inner-city families, the homeless and the poor suffer gross social injustice, and that American foreign policy continues to perpetuate much evil abroad, means that the present order should not be saved...
TRUE paleo-conservatism has, as Dostoevsky explained, compassion and a sense of responsibility for "the insulted and the injured." It is not the callous libertarianism of Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick or Margaret Thatcher, which lends itself well to upper-class twittery and renunciations of social responsibility...
Conservatism should seek to achieve as much good as possible, given the available means. It holds forth no social panaceas or utopias--and perhaps that is what makes it unattractive for some...