(We are the only site on the web devoted exclusively to intellectual conservatism.... http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/000261.html In The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society, by Lionel Trilling. In it, Trilling wrote: In the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition. For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation. This does not mean, of course, that there is no impulse to conservatism...but [they] do not, with some isolated and some ecclesiastical exceptions, express themselves in ideas but only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.)