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The statement is abrupt and is not backed by the analysis of writers in the book. He thought about liberals a great deal--especially when he criticized their acceptance of Communist themes--but he failed to study any conservative writers of his era. Indeed, Trilling deliberately left out major conservative writers such as [[William Faulkner]] and the Southern Agrarians because he could not handle them. He said Faulkner was too regional to pay attention to.<ref>"Of our novelists today perhaps only william Faulkner deal with society as the field of tragis reality and he has the disadvantage of being limited to a provincial scene." ''Liberal Imagination'' p. 213.</ref>
The statement is abrupt and is not backed by the analysis of writers in the book. He thought about liberals a great deal--especially when he criticized their acceptance of Communist themes--but he failed to study any conservative writers of his era. Indeed, Trilling deliberately left out major conservative writers such as [[William Faulkner]] and the Southern Agrarians because he could not handle them. He said Faulkner was too regional to pay attention to.<ref>"Of our novelists today perhaps only william Faulkner deal with society as the field of tragis reality and he has the disadvantage of being limited to a provincial scene." ''Liberal Imagination'' p. 213.</ref>
But perhaps Trilling should not be taken too literally. He can be interpreted as saying America in 1950 urgently needs a conservative counterbalance to the uncritical acceptance of liberal ideas. And by ideas he had reference only to literature--he did not read economics or historiography or political science.
==Neoconservatism==
==Neoconservatism==