Right thinking

CONSERVATISM: A REDISCOVERY, by Yoram Hazony (Regnery, US$30)

Communism is infamous for its innumerable varieties. Wikipedia lists 44 varieties, from original flavour Marxism through to Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and Kaysone Phomvihane Thought. It doesn’t end there, since even within those categories there are gradations and factions with slightly different ways of looking at things. And, more often than not, they all hate and resent each other.

Many of us like to laugh at the internal fighting we so often see on the left. But the fact is that all political ideologies and dispositions suffer from