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Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America's Culture War, by Sam Francis, edited by Peter B. Gemma; FGF Books, 2007, US$21.
THE CONTEXT of a book can matter as much as its content, and this is such a case. It's a work that invites conservatives to search their souls, and it suggests a good place to start is with the legacy of Edmund Burke.
For all his greatness, Burke bequeathed to conservatism a fatal flaw that would help make it the Stupid Party, forever undermining its own true role. The flaw was his trust in Whiggery and in the capitalism preached by his friend Adam Smith. With their creed of "creative destruction", British Whigs and capitalists were the ...