This is the third essay in a symposium that reconsiders neglected conservative thinkers. The essays were originally presented at the 2026 meeting of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. The next entry, on Willmoore Kendall, will be published tomorrow, August 27. You can read about Robert Nisbet here and Wilhelm Roepke here. Mike Wallace told Frank Meyer on television in 1961 that maybe one in a thousand of his viewers knew of his interview sub…