Russell Arben Fox, British Conservatives are Better (via Daniel Larison)

In the United States, thoroughly Lockean country that it is, any such conservative theory is going to have a very difficult time finding some way of thinking that will allow it to address liberalism and modernity on a conceptually equal level; without that, all you have is a pleasantly angry dissidence (or, again, an outright or at least quasi-religious faith in a remnant out there).

Does the South not have as its resource the Southern political tradition? If only it would return vigorously to it, in its selection of legislators.