![]() ![]() This imbalance, however, also reflects the composition of liberal arts faculties at most colleges and universities, where liberals and leftists are abundant and conservatives are in short supply. ![]() In part this imbalance reflects historians’ natural tendency to neglect the recent past and to focus instead on the more distant past, the first half of the twentieth century, when liberalism, in the form of Progressivism and the New Deal, really was the most important American political movement. Libraries are choked with books on the history of liberalism and the left while the shelves on the history of conservatism are spare. Everywhere one looks, conservative outlooks dominate public opinion: the market is celebrated as the most effective and just distributor of society’s resources government expenditures of any sort, other than for national defense, are condemned as ineffective or harmful to the Gross National Product morality and social discipline are regarded as the only legitimate touchstones of social policy.ĭespite conservatism’s influence, historians of the twentieth-century United States have had a hard time giving this political movement its due. No political movement in America these last twenty-five years has rivaled conservatism in appeal or influence. ![]()
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