Jon Askonas’ Compact piece does not bury the lede. Conservatism has failed, in his view, and it has failed because it mistook the problem at hand. It mistook the seismic shift of technology for a simple lack. Askonas writes that while a notion of tradition has always been used to unify disparate groups, it was a “usefully empty category” referring alternately to scriptural wisdom or constitutional claims.
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Kirsten Sanders (PhD, Emory University) is a writer and theologian. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.
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