Human Events still strong voice of conservatism

The proper conservative perspective should be to "put the interests of the nation and the interests of individual liberty above the interests of massive public corporations," he adds. "And there is no doubt at this point in American history there are conflicts."

But conflict and anger will not necessarily dominate. Traditionally Human Events, "perhaps better than any other conservative publication ' has managed to "point out all the people in this movement who are doing great and wonderful things, and to promote them and give them an outlet where there's positive coverage of what they're doing." This is in the spirit of the Buchanan campaign, he suggests. "I think everybody recognizes that Pat Buchanan dealt with the issues. He didn't get into personalities; we didn't run a negative campaign; we didn't run negative TV ads or anything else. We said, 'This is where we stand; this is what we believe in; this is where we're going to take the country.'"

That's something Jeffrey says he would like to accomplish in his new post. "This doesn't mean we won't be writing negative stories on occasion about people who are in opposition to those things. But there's a tremendous need for positive journalism."

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