The Choice for Conservatives: America’s Commercial Republic or State Capitalism?

The Choice for Conservatives: America’s Commercial Republic or State Capitalism?
The Statue of Liberty is seen in New York on Dec. 5, 2021. Patrick Smith/Getty Images
Rupert Darwall
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Conservatives have a disposition to believe that there’s little new under the sun. It’s why conservative thinkers study the past as a guide to understanding the present and shaping the future. They show a reverence for arrangements, and the ideas that support them, inherited from the past—unlike their postmodern opponents on the left, who believe that the principal reason to examine the past is to deconstruct it.

Rupert Darwall
Rupert Darwall
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Rupert Darwall is a senior fellow of the RealClear Foundation and author of the books “The Age of Global Warming: A History,” “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex,” and “Going Through the Motions: The Industrial Strategy Green Paper.” Darwall also authored the reports “The Climate Noose: Business, Net Zero, and the IPCC’s Anti-Capitalism,” “Capitalism, Socialism and ESG,” “Climate-Risk Disclosure: A Flimsy Pretext for a Green Power Grab,” “The Anti-Development Bank: The World Bank’s Regressive Energy Policies,” and “The Folly of Climate Leadership.”
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