Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party
Has Bush destroyed GOP's libertarian-religious coalition?
Human Events
by Bruce Bartlett
09/05/06
This week, New York Post columnist Ryan Sager, one of the most thoughtful young conservatives writing today, publishes an important new book, 'The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party.' The gist of the book is that the coalition of religious conservatives and libertarian free-marketeers is breaking apart. The basic principle that held them together throughout the postwar era -- the idea that morality and virtue need to be freely chosen to have meaning -- is breaking down...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16849
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Human Events
by Bruce Bartlett
09/05/06
This week, New York Post columnist Ryan Sager, one of the most thoughtful young conservatives writing today, publishes an important new book, 'The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party.' The gist of the book is that the coalition of religious conservatives and libertarian free-marketeers is breaking apart. The basic principle that held them together throughout the postwar era -- the idea that morality and virtue need to be freely chosen to have meaning -- is breaking down...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16849
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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