Politics and the Battle Over Definitions

"Is Bush a conservative? Of course not. When all the evidence is in, I think historians will agree with Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, who wrote a carefully argued article judging Bush to have been the worst president in American history. The problem is that he is generally called a conservative, perhaps because he obviously is not a liberal. It may be that Bush, in the magnitude of his failure, defies conventional categories. But the word 'conservative' deserves to be rescued."

Jeffrey Hart examines past presidents and modern philosophers in order to draw a line between President George W. Bush and American Conservatism in the November 20th edition of The American Conservative.