Well, for what little it's worth, I've been reading Michael Oakeshott's Rationalism in Politics, getting that queasy feeling that comes with reading the work of someone who was clearly a brilliant and systematic thinker and yet so willfully blind at the same time. (I'm having a hard time finding left and liberal responses to his writings, and I very highly recommend Hanna Fenichel Pitkin's extended essay on Oakeshott from the autumn 1973 issue of Dissent. She's probably saved about a half dozen young lives in the three decades since that issue came out.) I'm also reading books by some young lib-cons of today, such as Virginia Postrel's The Future and its Enemies and Cathy Young's Ceasefire!, and wonder why I even bother.