Goldwater at 100

While we're on the topic of conservatism and the 1964 election, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Visting history Professor at Claremont McKenna, will be a panelist at a two-day conference, entitled, "Goldwater at 100: His Politics, Ideology, and Legacy."

Dr. Shermer wrote an article for The Journal of American History. Its title? "Origins of the Conservative Ascendancy: Goldwater's Early Senate Career and the De-legitimization of Organized Labor."

Of course, the article (gated) doesn't examine whether or not organized labor de-legitimized itself, as it should have, and I have to wonder why it is that Professor Andrew E. Busch wasn't invited to speak after he wrote a really excellent piece for The Claremont Review of Books, titled, "The Goldwater Myth." Could it be because he criticized the Goldwater Institute for a mistaken interpretation of Barry Goldwater? If you read the piece, it's pretty clear that even Barry Goldwater would't be a Barry Goldwater conservative!