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| Subject: To hell with Edmund Burke and his collectivist conservatism Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:54 am | |
| Would the "first conservative" recognize modern conservatism? The conservatism of recent days has been a conservatism of radical individualism: a politics that sees its job as protecting society's "makers" from society's "takers." Yet the man most often credited as the founder of modern conservatism, the 18th-century British thinker-politician Edmund Burke, saw things very differently. Against the politics of "I want, I want, I want," he emphasized continuity, responsibility and community. That was a tough teaching 200 years ago, and it remains a tough teaching today. It's not a surprise that it often goes unheard. This year, however, Burke's tough teaching is again getting the articulation it deserves, thanks to two distinguished books by two rising conservative thinkers, one British, one American.
More: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/06/opinion/frum-conservative-burke-today/ |
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