DOES conservatism aim to uphold or to transform society? Across the West, the political right is split. Some conservatives back a status quo of globalised economies and live-and-let-live societies. Others want to upend that open, international order by putting the nation first, socially and economically. There is, however, a third kind of conservatism, represented by two new short books. Its guiding idea is that political problems at root are spiritual. In different ways, Rod Dreher and Roger Scruton suggest that conservatism's main task is to cure or abandon a sickened culture.
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机译：保守主义旨在维护或改变社会吗？在整个西方，政治权利是分裂的。一些保守派支持全球化经济和活命社会的现状。其他人则想通过在社会和经济上将国家置于首位来颠覆这种开放的国际秩序。但是，存在第三种保守主义，以两本新的短书为代表。其指导思想是，政治问题从根本上讲是精神上的。 Rod Dreher和Roger Scruton以不同的方式提出，保守主义的主要任务是治愈或放弃一种病态的文化。
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