Some highlights from Rod Dreher's "Manifesto" in Crunchy Cons:

• "Modern conservatism has become too focused on material conditions, and insufficiently concerned with the character of society. The point of life is not to become a more satisfied shopper."
  
• "The economy must be made to serve humanity's best interests, not the other way around."
  
• "Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government."
  
• "We believe that culture is more important than politics, and that neither America's wealth nor our liberties will long survive a culture that no longer lives by what Russell Kirk identified as 'the Permanent Things'--those eternal moral norms necessary to civilized life, and which are taught by all the world's great wisdom traditions."
  
• "A conservatism that does not recognize the need for restraint, for limits, and for humility is neither helpful to individuals and society nor, ultimately, conservative. This is particularly true with respect to the natural world."
  
• "A good rule of thumb: Small and Local and Old and Particular are to be preferred over Big and Global and New and Abstract."
  
• "Appreciation of aesthetic quality--that is, beauty--is not a luxury, but key to the good life."
  
• "The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important."
  
• "Politics and economics will not save us. If we are to be saved at all, it will be through living faithfully by the Permanent Things, preserving these ancient truths in the choices we make in everyday life. In this sense, to conserve is to create anew."