[mojito]

Long, but terrific essay.

h/t David Warren.

[Responsibility2nd]

Any reason why you didn’t post the entire essay?

[ConservingFreedom]

Interesting stuff! Doesn't sound like the essentialist Right has much to do with anything that could reasonably be called American conservatism: 'the US was founded in the eighteenth-century as a liberal republic and does not have what Burke called an “ancient constitution” similar to the one found in Europe. The social world that gave birth to classical conservatism was a lot more ancient or medieval than the society that American conservatives set out to defend.'

[OneWingedShark]

No Country for Old Politics (How to Define the Right in a Left World)

Short answer: you don't.
Longer answer:
You use something that isn't a relativistic measure, like right/left, but something that actually describes qualities, like statist/libertarian.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[kiryandil]

Thanks for posting this.

Just got back from my property. The mosquitoes were thick out there, too...