Tracy lee simmons biography of albert

    As a man of reason and logic, I am all for reform; but as the unworthy inheritor of a great tradition,
    I am unalterably against it.  I am forever with Falkland, the true martyr of the Civil War,--one of
    the very greatest among the great spirits of whom England has ever been so notoriously
    noteworthy,--as he stood facing Hampden and Pym.  'Mr. Speaker,' he said, 'when it is not
    necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.'
        -Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

As odd as it may seem to the several generations of us who were raised during the conservative ascendancy (now), as recently as the mids many intellectuals believed not only that conservative was a spent force in American political life, but that it