“Richard M. Weaver of Chicago (but a devoted son of Western North Carolina) . . . [bespeaks] a Conservatism that owes much to Plato but perhaps even more to a ‘complete disenchantment’ with the presumptuousness and vulgarity of liberalism. . . . [His] recent writings have become increasingly concerned with the debasing effects of ‘mass plutocracy.’” So Clinton Rossiter in the revised version of his Conservatism in America. But, even for so skilled a labeller as Rossiter, Weaver is a hard man to stick a label on. . . .