The End of the Goldwater-Reagan Era?
In his latest column, Jonathan Rauch takes a serious look at Rick Santorum's intellectually serious new book and concludes that the conservative movement has officially blown apart: "As Goldwater repudiated Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, so Santorum repudiates Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. It's now official: Philosophically, the conservative movement has split. Post-Santorum, tax-cutting and court-bashing can hold the Republican coalition together for only so much longer."