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Dec 27, 2005 11:20 AM Jeffrey Hart on ’the conservative mind’ by James Panero
As English professor at Dartmouth College, and advisor to The Dartmouth Review, Jeffrey Hart has been a mentor to a generation of conservative students, myself included. Dinesh D’Souza, Laura Ingraham, Peter Robinson, Mark Henrie, many others--these are the products of the Jeffrey Hart School of Conservatism, the curriculum of which includes studies in Edmund Burke, Michael Oakeshott, Stanford White, and tennis at Forest Hills. Last June, Robinson, former Reagan speech writer, one-time Dartmouth Reviewer, and current Dartmouth Trustee (by petition candidacy), wrote an a essay for the Review on the Hart School and its influence on young staffers in the Reagan administration. The essay, reproduced here, will be part of my edited anthology on The Dartmouth Review (titled The Dartmouth Review Pleads Innocent) to be published by ISI books in Spring 2006.
In addition to his job at Dartmouth, Hart has been the longest serving NR editor after Buckley, flying down to New York from New Hampshire fortnightly for editorial duties at the magazine. Some time ago, for his contributions to the magazine, as much as his distanced perspective on the magazine’s daily activities, Hart was chosen by Buckley to write a major history of National Review. After some delays at the printer, this history is now out from ISI books; it is called The Making of the American Conservative Mind : National Review and Its Times. Occasioned by this release, The New Criterion last November published a related essay by Hart on National Review called "Buckley at the Beginning." Today, The Wall Street Journal gives Hart the same due treatment. The newspaper has published part of Hart’s final chapter on "the American Conservative Mind," called "The Burke Habit." Maybe we should just call it, "The Hart Habit": The Conservative Mind is a work in progress. Its deviations and lunges to ideology and utopianism have been self-corrected by prudence, reserved judgment as an operative principle, a healthy practical skepticism and the requirement of historical knowledge as a guide to prudent policy. Without a deep knowledge of history, policy analysis is feckless.Hart’s essay is available here.
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