Mel Bradford on Organic vs. Abstract Models

You can see why the neocons opposed him:

The only freedom which can last is a freedom embodied somewhere, rooted in a history, located in space, sanctioned by genealogy, and blessed by a religious establishment. The only equality which abstract rights, insisted upon outside the context of politics, are likely to provide is the equality of universal slavery. It is a lesson which Western man is only now beginning to learn.

M. E. Bradford, A Better Guide Than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution