“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”

"That sentence from Hume," writes Roger Kimball in The New Criterion, "stands as an epigraph to The Road to Serfdom. It is as pertinent today as when [Fredrich] Hayek set it down in 1944."

Harkening back to my cyber-discussion with Mona yesterday, I don't know if The New Criterion could properly be called neocon or not, but it certainly is conservative in its perspective, at least in matters aesthetic and frequently in matters social, as well. Whatever my libertarian tendencies may be, since I happen to share much of their aesthetic and some of their social conservativism, I rarely have much of a problem with what I read at TNC.

As Reagan observed, my 80 percent ally is not my 20 percent enemy, and while the manner in which the 80 /20 divide varies, I find that true across most of the political spectrum. My point is only that there are plenty of conservatives of a certain sort who have not been corrupted by the Borg Bush Administration (just as there are many liberals of a certain sort) with whom I share all sorts of common cause. Besides, that leaves plenty to bitch about on both sides.

Be that as it may, the Kimball article is well worth a read, though it will tell Hayek fans (like Mona) nothing they didn't already know.