DREADPUBLISHING: John Heard In 'Policy Magazine' Spring 2008 On William F. Buckley Jr., 'Fusionism', 'Liberaltarianism' & 'Virtue Or Freedom?'

[UPDATE] DREADNOUGHT has been invited to present the paper in Sydney, and answer questions on U.S. conservative politics, at the Centre for Independent Studies Advanced Liberty & Society Conference, held October 3 - 5, 2008.

[UPDATE] The article is available free online (html / .PDF), and the magazine is available on news-stands, and for subscription.

:: Update ::

DREADNOUGHT has completed a paper for the Centre for Independent Studies Policy Magazine, on the late William F. Buckley Jr. and what has been called "fusionism" in American conservative politics. The C.I.S. is "Australasia's leading independent policy think-tank". The piece appears in the (Antipodean) Spring 2008 issue of the magazine, out now.

:: The Upshot ::

As already sketched, the feature article presents the concept of fusionism, briefly investigates its peculiar political successes, and then interrogates the value of any ongoing alignment of properly conservative and more libertarian impulses in contemporary politics and political theory. The paper takes in the early and ongoing concerns of some (Catholic) conservatives that, in a world that offers freedom or virtue, men have no place pursuing the former to the detriment and / or eclipse, dismissal and jettisoning of the latter.

:: Resources ::

- Liberaltarians?;

- L. Brent Bozell and Virtue or Freedom?;

- Prospects for an Hayekian Fusionism;

- Bozell’s Conversion;

- Foundation Essays in Freedom and Virtue by George Carey (Ed.);

- John Howard’s Australian 'Fusionism'; and

DREADNOUGHT's previous book reviews for Policy Magazine:

- Alan Dershowitz, Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights;

- Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity; and

- Andrew Sullivan, The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It and How to Get It Back.