I wonder what the derivation of the description "Third Way" is? Is it from "Third Reich"
Freedom by itself can rage dangerously like a forest fire. In fact, the appearance of "free market" in housing has left us nothing but "for profit" architecture that has abandoned the private in property. We used to build our own houses; they used to have charm:
A genuie article of fine material, put together by that craftmanship which is oblivious of time, is almost certain today to be in the super-luxury class, if indeed it is not already a museum exhibit . . .A most eloquent example may be seen in the story of housing. A hundred years ago, more or less, when men built houses to live in themselves, they were constructing private property. The purpose was one to be honored, and they worked well, with an eye at least to the third generation. This is a simple instance of providence. One can see those dwellings today in the quiet villages of New England and in remote places of the South, the honesty of the work that went into them reflected even in a grace of form. A century or a century and a half goes by, and they are both habitable and attractive. Let us look next at the modern age, in which houses are erected with an eye to profit margins. A certain trickiness of design they often have, a few obeisances to the god comfort; but after twenty years they are falling apart. They were never private except in a specious sense; no one was really identified with them.
-- Richard Weaver, Ideas Have ConsequencesFor conservatives the thought of a corporation like AT&T prior to recent divestiture, as big as many a sovereign government on earth, with employees numbering many hundreds of thousands and with several million stockholders, can be as difficult to accept as is the whole federal bureaucracy. –Robert Nisbet, Conservatism (1986)