Last week, just as the East Coast descended into a terrifying world of ice and snow, Norm Ornstein proposed “A Plan to Reduce Inequality: Give $1,000 to Every Newborn Baby.” As Ornstein described the ...

Does David Bromwich’s idea of a Burkean left amount to anything more than contempt for Obama? David Bromwich Shortly after the rosy glow of Barack Obama’s coronation had receded, a literature ...

In 1790 Edmund Burke published his classic polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. The work has served ever since as a benchmark, especially for conservatives, in judging new political ...

In a very interesting review essay from The Atlantic, Christopher Hitchens gives props to Edmund Burke over Thomas Paine, writing in part, If modern conservatism can be held to derive from Burke, it ...

Justice Amy Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court would spell doom for the Affordable Care Act, Roe v. Wade, and the 2015 Obergefell ruling on same-sex marriage — or so Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...

Tenth U.S. Attack on Boats Off South America Raises Death Toll to 43 Plate and State The State of the Federal Prosecutions of President Trump Audio By Carbonatix My Impromptus today offers the usual ...

I recently read an Atlantic Magazine essay by New York Times columnist David Brooks. He describes (what he sees as) the origins, principles, and policy guidelines of ‘traditional’ or ‘Burkean’ ...

A special Crikey correspondent takes a detailed look at some of Tony Abbott’s philosophical musings. Most of them resolve the contradiction by doing two things. They pretend to be sports fans. (To the ...

A peculiarly British paralysis is the inheritance of a Burkean experience of time - we incur debts now in return for the promise of an ever-receding future. Yet a sense of immediacy is returning as ...