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Problems of current-day conservative thought
What does cutting taxes mean anyway, if society, as a whole, becomes a seething cauldron of polyglot, polymorphous perversity?

TORONTO—Conservatism today is, it could be argued, a bewildered philosophy, and an unwieldy morass of mutually incompatible, self‑contradictory, and amorphous ideas. Despite decades of internecine debate, the contemporary conservative movement in Western...












