This may seem hard to believe today, but there were once such things as “enlightened conservatives,” to borrow a term used by the Yale scholar Immanuel Wallerstein. From Otto von Bismarck to Dwight Eisenhower, these enlightened conservatives were more pragmatic than dogmatic, and more re...
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