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CURRENTS EVENTS Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology, by Peter Viereck. Transaction, February 2005. $24.95
Peter Viereck may have won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry in 1949, but his most lasting impression may be as an advocate of the culturalist and somewhat communitarian-and hence highly disgruntled and typically pessimistic-strand of modern conservative thought. Viereck complements thinkers like Irving Babbitt, Russell Kirk, and Michael Oakeshott and...