The Conservative Conundrum: Seeming Reality-Based, Without Losing the Base

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Don't like science? Play the "phrenology" card

This is a guest post by Dylan Otto Krider,a skeptic, journalist and science fiction author whose work on the politicization of science has appeared in Skeptic, Dissent and other outlets(www.dylanottokrider.com).

What makes the recent Weekly Standard cover story by Andrew Ferguson on “The New Phrenology” worth spending some time on is this: It perfectly captures the quandary faced by conservative intellectuals, who try to hold themselves up as a cou...