Reason and Social Order
November 15, 2010
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A PREVIOUS essay by Alan Roebuck on the need for conservatives to “evangelize” sparked interesting debate here, with some readers objecting to Mr. Roebuck’s fundamental optimism. The conversation became heated when one commenter argued that the traditionalist movement must find him a wife.
Mr. Roebuck now has a second essay on conservative apologetics at the Intellectual Conservative. He writes:
Liberals don’t just hold false beliefs. They’re also lost souls, participants in a false and destructive way of life. They need to hear the good news that liberalism is false and there’s a better way for them and for America. And we conservatives need liberals to hear the good news so we can have hope of igniting a counterrevolution that will restore a properly-ordered (or at least tolerably-ordered) American society.
Mr. Roebuck, who uses religious language to describe a secular movement, urges the modern conservative to see himself as a metaphysical missionary.
