New at Reason: Steve Chapman on Sarah Palin and the Decline of Conservatism

November 19, 2009

The 19th century American writer Henry Adams said the descent of American presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant was enough to discredit the theory of evolution. And as Steve Chapman writes, the same could be said of the pantheon of conservative political heroes, which in the last half-century has gone from Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan to Sarah Palin.

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