From the Archives of Movement Conservatism

National Review has begun to email followers choice items from the magazine's venerable archives. They do make for interesting reading. Today, for example, the magazine sent an exchange from 1962: a debate between Otto von Habsburg and James Burnham about France's then-new president, Charles de Gaulle. Habsburg hailed the advent of the French Fifth Republic as good news; Burnham dismissed and lamented it. The exchange leaves you thinking: was ever so smart a man wrong about more thi...