"The Emotional Case for Traditionalism"
It owes an (ironically) unacknowledged debt to Chesterton's "democracy of the dead" definition of "tradition" -- this post actually reads like a modern day "translation" of GK's now daunting prose.
It's a nice change from the usual stuff at VFR, where Laurence Auster regularly reads everyone out of The Conservative Movement except himself and a few of his friends, based on little more than subtle shades of disagreement sometimes detectable only by, coincidentally, Laurence Auster.
I welcome every opportunity to remind many of my so-called "conservative" readers that (if I may be permitted to read out a few folks myself) true conservatives are primarily traditionalists, whose knee jerk reaction to any and all social innovations from gay marriage and adoption to mandatory recycling should be, must be, "No! No! A thousand times no!" and not, as is so often the case these days, "Whatever. What could it hurt? Hey, Family Guy's on!"