This article illustrates a comment I made to Ron Paul at last weekend’s Jekyll Island conference. He had said that defenders of the existing system were on the “defensive.” I suggested to him that they weren’t defensive, but desperate. “Conservatism” is on its way out, primarily because it does not have a principled base upon which to stand. Thanks to the Buckleys, et al., their position was essentially “anti-communist,” or, more precisely, “anti-Soviet.” When that monster went away, they had nothing left upon which to stand except power for the sake of having power. I believe there is a major … Continue reading On Conserving Emptiness