The NATO essay points again to the fact that, whether the issue under discussion is welfare policy or foreign policy,
what we consistently find in the work
of Irving Kristol is a consideration
of public life and governing from the standpoint
of the individual soul» and, by the same token, a consideration
of the need to foster the right
kinds of virtues in individual souls in order for the most desirable
regimes to be successful.
But in a political dynamic as unstable as the American system is today, if a run were made at copyright
regimes as has occurred in Canada,
what kind of advocacy could you count on?