About twenty-five years ago, it became painfully obvious to me that I had no place in the reconstructed conservative establishment. By then this movement had fallen under neoconservative domination, a state from whence, in my opinion, it has not even minimally recovered. During and after the takeover, I discovered that a growing number of people were keeping their distance from me in a movement I had once to some degree identified with. The new gatekeepers conspired to keep me out of academic positions, made sure that nothing with my name on it would appear in their publications, and that no … Continue reading Bad Manners