After Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, Corey Robin, a professor of political theory at Brooklyn ... thinkers and politicians “from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump.” Through a series of essays ...

He reminds us it’s hard to respect democratic political institutions while disdaining ... Had it not been for the revolution in France, Edmund Burke would likely have been remembered, a bit ...

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) is acclaimed today as one of the originators of modern political conservatism. In particular, his defence of the virtues of tradition and prejudice in Reflections on the ...

ANYONE writing about Edmund Burke (1723-92 ... is fully aware of the contradictions in Burke’s life and thought. He outlines five great political causes Burke championed: for equal treatment ...

In "The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine ... and pamphlets could be as important as battles. Both Burke and Paine were masters of political rhetoric at a time when political rhetoric ...

With excellent timing, as Oxford University Press’s nine-volume edition of Edmund Burke ... in the topography of Burke’s thought, sharpening the focus on political parties and representation ...

The great French political thinker Raymond Aron, half liberal and half conservative himself, spoke suggestively in a 1957 essay on conservatism in modern industrial societies about the two ways of ...