On July 13, a group of journalists, policy wonks, and political activists opened a new front in the war for American conservatism. One-hundred-and-twenty-two signatories, led by Avik Roy of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and John Hood of the John William Pope Foundation, affirmed 10 principles that define "Freedom Conservatism." It's a meaningful and necessary intervention in the ongoing debate on the Right over political economy that deserves to be read and shared.
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Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesSeven years ago, a group of respectable conservatives wrote eloquent essays about why the rise in demagoguery, authoritarianism, nationalism, and hedonism on the right (in other words, Trumpism) was not the way forward.I’m referring, of course, to National Review’s (in)famous “Against Trump” edition (there’s a reason why it was Ronald Reagan’s favorite magazine). Along with an editorial castigating The Donald, the edition also featur