Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:48:15 -0500 (EST)
From: David F Maier <dfm8-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: God help us, back to tropes


On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Andrew Collins wrote:

> Conservatism has been tried. It doesn't work. That's what's 
> wrong with it.  

Correct.  But in order to make this point stick, we must resist the
temptation to label "conservative" *any* criticism of/alternate takes
on radical speculation/schizoid voyages into the beyond, or any suggestion
that we consider our beliefs to be true (i.e. believe them).  (Not that
anyone on this list would do that, of course, but still.)

D.