What a fabulous idea! Give this man some credit, he sees the postmodern conservative point of my post was to say that there’s something—but not everything—good about the South. And surely he’s right to add that I’m the true heir of the authors of I’LL TAKE MY STAND. Not only that, his judicious comment is that America needs both the North and the South, the universal and the particular, the nation and the localities, and justice and love.
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