A rich discussion among seven men who are all in one way or another

conservative "activists," but who have also contributed to the conservative intellectual movement. The first hour concentrates on matters domestic and electoral, the second on human rights and foreign policy; the talk ranges from how to reform the tax system to how political conservatism has changed since the days of Thomas Dewey and Robert A. Taft, to how difficult it is to float a new idea in the course of a political campaign (JLB: "The best you can do really is to identify yourself with positions that have become sufficiently well understood in the body politic so that they say, 'Yes, I know what you mean'"), to what we can and should do about human rights around the world (JDM: "Certainly we can't dispatch the Marines to every quarter of the globe that doesn't live up to our standards of internal rights...but certainly you can at least--there are thousands of

ways to do this--reflect the fact that you disapprove ...").