The modern conservative movement in the United States germinated in the '50s with the publication of William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale, bloomed in the '60s with the Barry Goldwater presidential campaign, blossomed in the '70s with groups like Moral Majority and Christian Voice, and flourished in the '80s with the eight-year Reagan administration. Conservatives seemed to planted atop the political and social world.
But their flowering was short-lived. Because the conservative movement, despite its many sound features (including anti-statism and anti-Communism), was not anchored in an unchangeable standard, it was eventually hijacked from within and transformed into a scaled-down version of the very liberalism it was originally calculated to combat. These modern neo-conservatives are effectively in control of today's conservatism, but are enemies of the conservative heritage.
This small book offers a series of short essays which explore the history, accomplishments and decline of the conservative movement, and lay the foundation for a viable substitute to today's compromising, floundering conservatism. Its conclusion is that the only possible successful alternative to both relentless liberalism and rudderless conservatism is a full-orbed, uncompromising, consistent Biblical faith.
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