and puts out a special issue where, in an article on 10 ways to increase liberty, Robert Bork says we should reimpose censorship to restore our freedom to not be offended by indecent expression. In the same piece, David Frum recommends a national ID card, after all, since the state is going to monitor us anyway, it enhances liberty to make the surveillance state as efficient as possible!

NR does make a few gestures toward (regime) libertarianism. For example, Stephen Moore suggests it would increase liberty if Congress voted against all unconstitutional spending bills (Moore does not mention it, but there is already a Congressman who does this, his name is Ron Paul) and Jacob Sullivan calls for ending the drug war. Milton and Rose Friedman’s Free to Choose is listed as one of the most influential conservative books of the last fifty years, as is Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions, and Charles Murry’s Losing Ground.

However, the list of great books also includes two Straussian tracks: Jaffa’s Crisis of the House Divided and Alan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. In his tribute to Jaffa, Charles Kesler celebrates how Jaffa’s Lincoln-worshiping vanquished “neo-confederacy” among NR’s writers and readers.

Finally, the NR Comintern has shoved Joe Sobran, America’s finest writer, down the memory hole.