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05/08/2003 Archived Entry: "metropolitan conservatives"

DERB ON METROPOLITAN CONSERVATIVES: John Derbyshire's latest column for NRO is interesting on many levels. I think it discusses a lot more serious mode of thought than the much-vaunted "crunchy conservatism" of Rod Dreher, it defies liberal stereotypes of conservatives and it seems likely to encourage the paleoconservative critique of National Review as a nest of milk-and-water neocons. I think we tend too much to compare political ideologies with lifestyles, but it is true that there are a lot of conservative pundits who are culturally distinct from the right's grassroots base.