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1. @DouthatNYT raises an interesting question about what liberals (or for that matter the left) can learn from the right even in this period where the right is mostly a sinister clown-show.
2. Off the top of my head, I'd say what can still be recovered from the right: a) Hayek's epistemological critique of central planning remains true (although not many of the uses Hayek put to it). b) Burke has a multi-generational ethic that's worth developing.
3. Other valuable parts of the right: c) foreign policy realism of the Lippmann/Kennan strand is still useful d) the Eliotic modernist idea of tradition as reinvention e) the critique (from Schmitt & others) of liberal fetishization of process over outcomes.
