For conservatives generally and the Republican Party in particular, now is a time of intense soul-searching. More than a decade has passed since President Bill Clinton announced that “the era of big government is over.” Yet, since then, government has grown far bigger and far more intrusive. It spends more, regulates us more, and reaches far more into our daily lives than it did before the Republican Revolution. In Leviathan on the Right, Michael Tanner says that behind this alarming trend stands the rise of a new brand of conservatism–one that believes big government can be used for conservative ends. It is a conservatism that ridicules F. A. Hayek and Barry Goldwater while embracing Teddy and even Franklin Roosevelt. Unless conservatives return to their small-government roots, Tanner warns, the electoral defeat of 2006 is just the beginning. Please join us for a lively discussion with distinguished commentators.