a separate social agenda, separate economic agenda, and a separate foreign agenda. We have one agenda. Just as surely as we seek to put our financial house in order and rebuild our nation's defenses, so too we seek to protect the unborn, to end the manipulation of schoolchildren by utopian planners, and permit the acknowledgement of a Supreme Being in our classrooms just as we allow such acknowledgements in other public institutions." The essence of this fusionist synthesis was "cutting the size and scope" of the national government and "returning power to the states and communities" to allow the traditional "social consensus," its "robust individualism," and the free market to restore prosperity and civic vitality. Ronald Reagan took Meyer's idea of this Western synthesis into government and could claim some success in translating it into power, at least for a while. Its future, however, must be viewed as more problematical. Works The Moulding of Communists: the training of the Communist cadre, New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1961. In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo, Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1962 Left, Right and Center: Essays on Liberalism and Conservatism in the United States, ed. by Robert Goldwin, Frank Meyer, et al., Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1965 The Conservative Mainstream, New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1969. References Further reading External links Ronald Reagan, "Address to the Conservative Political Action Conference," March 20, 1981 1909 births 1972 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American philosophers Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of the London School of Economics American Roman Catholics American libertarians American magazine editors American male non-fiction writers American people of German-Jewish descent American political philosophers American political writers Converts to Roman Catholicism Critics of Marxism Deaths from lung cancer in New York (state) Former Marxists National Review people New Right (United States) Princeton University alumni Writers from Newark, New Jersey