PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewBacevich compiles a rich menu. So rich, however, that \'conservatism\' comes close to being a classification that no longer classifies ... Regarding religion, Bacevich has assembled excellent samples of conservative reflection about, and resistance to, the disenchantment of Americans’ world ... The anthologist’s occupational hazard is to be faulted because of some writers included and others excluded...Bacevich offers nothing from Calvin Coolidge’s luminous address on the sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence. Or from The Moral Sense, by James Q. Wilson, the pre-eminent social scientist of the last half of the previous century. Or from the Nobel laureate George Stigler, whose essay The Intellectual and the Marketplace would have leavened Bacevich’s book with something it lacks: wittiness ... The book’s most disappointing lacuna concerns jurisprudence...Yet the only snippet of jurisprudential thinking that Bacevich includes is from Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges ... The volume is, however, a nourishing cafeteria of writers, many of them justly forgotten but still interesting because they once were interesting.