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s Young conservative writer Helen Andrews is what the right usually accuses progressives of being — she’s a scold. All cyclical, of course, because when I was a wee bairn it was indeed the Birchers and their buds who did the societal scolding. No rock’n’roll, no birth control for you, bohemians — just redlined neighborhoods with segregated schools and then it’s off to fight the Commies in Vietnam, thank you very much. Gay? No you’re not. One God, one country, love it or leave it. I could never get how the reactionaries were allowed to pretend their views had anything...