Posts tagged conservatism

Apr 18

“Today’s radical conservatism is an unholy and unstable hodgepodge of ideas that are fundamentally alien to each other. This marriage is doomed.” Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, “The Gospel according to Ayn Rand,” On Faith, The Washington Post, April 18, 2011.

Jul 21

“Nothing could be less conservative than to fight for forms which in the course of time have lost their importance.” Wilhelm von Kardorff, quoted in Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989; Boston: Mariner, 2000), 72.

Oct 30

“Somehow Ronald Reagan’s party of western individualism and limited government has ended up not just increasing the size of the state but turning it into a tool of southern-fried moralism.” “It’s Time,” The Economist, 10/30/2008, endorsing Barack Obama.

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