What's the matter with kids today? Not their reading habits, apparently.

To console Dan McCarthy, who has, among other concerns, a worry that young conservatives aren't reading the right books, here is a paragraph from the editor's introduction to this year's first issue of the Yale Free Press (not yet published; being an insider has perks):

. . . No, we are not conservatives of the sort one typically finds on talk radio shows or Fox News. We are part of a venerable intellectual tradition that includes Edmund Burke, Friedrich Hayek, Robert Nisbet, and Russell Kirk.

If only I can convince Dan that the author isn't a Bertram type—tweed aside, I swear he isn't—he can rest easy.