Future of Conservatism: Conflict and Consensus in the Post-Reagan Era Book

This is a mercifully short collection of essays on the future of American conservatism as a political movement. The basic premise is that the conservative movement is a coalition of four ideological positions: libertarianism, neoconservatism, traditionalists, and the Religious Right, and that the coalition is in jeopardy due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the success of free-market economics. Opposition to communism was the glue that held the coalition together (Clinton-hatred also helped hold them together after the Cold War.) In the wake of the Cold War and the Bush administration's Wilsonianism, the coalition has been fractured. Most interesting is the article on the Religious Right's responsibility to maintain the coalition. Since I am not a Christian and don't traffic with born-agains, I found it really fascinating, the movement's general conception, going back to the nation's founding, that America is the New Jerusalem. The author of the article, Marvin Olasky, draws on Calvin and official Presbyterian doctrine to justify the acceptance of sin in the public sphere and to not seek the imposition of Protestant Christian morality on the national polity.