A True Conservative’s Drink

Ingredients

• One rocks glass, one martini glass
• Bombay or Beefeater paired with vermouth
• Dewar’s paired with ice
• A love of reason and respect of dialogue

“Like the Whig gentry who were the Founders, I loathe populism…Most especially in the form of populist religion, i.e., the current pestiferous bible-banging evangelicals, whom I regard as organized ignorance, a menace to public health, to science, to medicine, to serious Western religion, to intellect 

and indeed to sanity. 

Evangelicalism, driven by emotion, and not creedal, is 

thoroughly erratic and by its nature cannot be conservative. 

My conservatism is aristocratic in spirit, anti-populist and rooted in the Northeast. It is Burke brought up to date. A ‘social conservative’ in my view is not a moral authoritarian Evangelical who wants to push people around, but an American gentleman, conservative in a social sense. He has gone to a good school, maybe shops at J. Press, maybe plays tennis or golf, and drinks either Bombay or Beefeater martinis, or maybe Dewar’s on the rocks, or both.” 

– Jeffrey Hart ’51

Pour your scotch, stir your martini, and raise a glass to the late and great Jeffrey Hart. Sir, The Review thanks you for your service to this country and conservatism. We thank you for our founding. We thank you for the education that you provided your students. But, most of all, we thank you for your stalwart support of reason, argument, and integrity. 

– The Dartmouth Review