A Road Untravelled

A.C. Kleinheider penned a compelling piece under the title: "Why conservative blacks seldom become conservatives."

However, the article might have just as easily appeared under this headline: Why conservative whites often are not really all that conservative.

Mr. Kleinheider exposes a significant defect in the approach of many contemporary conservatives -- their's is a conservatism strictly of ends. The means by which one arrives should also be important.