NB BookNotes: Peter Berkowitz Defends 'Constitutional Conservatism

March 22nd, 2013 7:15 PM
On Tuesday, I sat down with Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution to discuss his new book, Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation. That latter part of the subtitle might trip up a lot of folks, so I asked him to explain what exactly he meant by political moderation. Political moderation rightly understood, Berkowitz explained, is not "compromise…