Given recent events, it is ironic that conservatism was born in opposition to mobs. And not just any mobs: French ones. The British philosopher Edmund Burke swerved to the right in October of 1789, ...
Edmund Burke is identified today as a conservative thinker–indeed, one of the greatest conservative thinkers–by his admirers. But his conservatism was more complicated and provocative than even ...
Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France” (1790) is one of the world’s great books because its brilliant defense of constitutional order at a time when the revolutionaries of France ...
Image from page 402 of “William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, and the growth and division of the British Empire, 1708-1778;” (1901) Edmund Burke was, and still is, a provocative thinker—a provocation in his ...
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