Sentences with phrase «in modern conservatism»

He said: «We are failing to understand some of the profound shifts that are occurring in modern Conservatism.

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So - called conservatism and so - called radicalism in these contemporary guises are in general mere stalking - horses for liberalism: the contemporary debates within modern political systems are almost exclusively between conservative liberals, liberal liberals, and radical liberals.

I think the abstract towers of modern conservatism in the tensions of practice may be thought of as «traditionalist» and «individualist.»

The notable exception, in the alliances of modern conservatisms against statism, corporatism, and centralizations are some libertarians (neo-liberals) who wish to conserve an economic liberalism (meaning an elevated «liberty» and «right» in the public sphere).

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 By George H. Nash Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 467 pages, $ 24.95 George Nash knows as much about the intellectual history of modern American conservatism as anybody, and it is a pleasure to have his classic 1976 study again available.

But that objection to historicist conservatism was raised, as Muller notes, by Leo Strauss, certainly a conservative thinker, at least in the sense that classical political philosophy is a major source of modern conservatism.

But omissions and biases notwithstanding, general readers and scholars alike will find Muller's anthology an excellent place to begin the necessary conversation on the meaning of conservatism in the modern world.

Conservatism has succeeded politically in modern America only when it has been infused with populism.

Having drawn the battle line at the Bible, conservatism will be required to exhaust itself in theories and explanations of how the Bible is not only infallible but does in fact, when read correctly, substantiate all the new theories discovered by the modern age.

By far the most complicating factor in the debate is that conservatism lives and dies as the antithesis to liberalism, the modern Antichrist.

To them, both theological liberalism (in all its varieties) and theological conservatism (with as many varieties) were and still are obsessed with «the modern mind.»

Though long «since canonized as one of the fathers of modern conservatism, in large part because of his influential 1953 book The Conservative Mind, Kirk (who died in 1994) fits awkwardly with the other men identified as the founders of that movement.

There are some distinguished and competent thinkers and writers in those circles, to be sure, but by - and - large the support for it has come either from ignorant laypeople who find its authoritative manner of speaking emotionally appealing or from those who belong to what might be called reactionary conservatism and who are annoyed by much that is found in the modern world and eager to return to «the old time religion.»

Though modern conservatism sprung up in response to FDR's government interventionism, with plenty of Republicans in the 1930s labeling the New Deal socialist, it really got rolling in the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1940s and»50s, with Joe McCarthy and his ilk doing the dirty work and intellectuals like Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol providing the ideas.

But once again, it might be argued that this merely attempts to reduce modern conservatism — encompassing UKIP — to free - market liberalism, when in fact it can be clearly distinguished from liberalism in other crucial respects.

It is in this sense that Modern American Conservatism is conservative to Americans: The tenants of the nation was that governments exist by consent of the govern, individualism, and that local governments should have more power to interfere with individuals than state governments, which should have more power than the national government (Jeffersonian Democracy).

Same for gay rights, stem cells, the Drug War, prayer in schools, creationism, and a lot of the other defining issues of modern US conservatism.

On the other hand, Edmund Burke, a predecessor to modern conservatism, saw government as an institution that grew organically as a tradition, and that we should be suspicious of making changes to it just because individuals in the current generation happen to object to it.

Keynes offered the Attlee Government a macro-economic framework for post-war recovery; Hayek's «market society» offered Mrs Thatcher's Tories a roadmap away from post-war social democratic serfdom; Giddens's «Third Way» socio - philosophy allowed «New» Labour to synthesise or transcend the old dogmas of state - centric social democracy and neo-liberalism»; and Phillip Blond gave a critique of the market and the state in order for Cameron to claim «society» and its renewal as the key priority of modern Conservatism.

NY - 19 is larger than a single race: It's going to be ground zero in the fight for America's future — a pitched battle between trendy, modern day «progressivism» and traditional American conservatism.

The elimination of discrimination in marriage and partnership law is consistent with modern, liberal Conservatism, and with the Prime Minister's personal pledge to eradicate homophobia and secure gay equality.

A second meaning of the term social conservatism developed in the Nordic countries and continental Europe, where it refers to liberal conservatives supporting modern European welfare states.

A secondary meaning for the term liberal conservatism that has developed in Europe is a combination of more modern conservative (less traditionalist) views with those of social liberalism.

Will Team Cameron succeed in persuading the local party to choose a candidate who is in tune with the party leader's «modern compassionate conservatism»?

Once upon a time, modern conservatism was an optimistic creed: its basic frame was of good people in bad systems.

[23][24][25] The libertarian theme of the «tea party» protest has also been used by Republican Congressman Ron Paul and his supporters during fundraising events in the primaries of the 2008 presidential campaign to emphasize fiscal conservatism, which they later claimed laid the groundwork for the modern - day Tea Party movement.

Given Hayes's unusual G.K.Chesterton conservatism - in the modern Tory party, anyway - his quotability, and his fixer role as the co-Chairman of Cornerstone, I remain surprised that to date he has flown undetected beneath the radar of most political journalists.

The uncompromising tone of this is surprising, and a little worrying - hardly modern, compassionate conservatism in action.

Modern technology like email takes a lot of the blame in the film for conflict and misinterpretation, which could be reflective of reflective of Farhadi's own conservatism.

The three major accomplishments of Shanker's career, according to Kahlenberg, were the founding of modern teachers» unions, his leadership of education reform in the»80s and»90s, and his dedication to «tough liberalism,» which the author described as a philosophy «more politically persuasive and substantively potent than either traditional liberalism or traditional conservatism.»

Reason number two has to deal with modern conservatism's longstanding problem in dealing with the racialism that is America's Original Sin, which still perpetuates itself in American public education through policies and practices such as zoned schooling and overuse of suspensions and expulsions.

The fact the federal government should hold states accountable for the subsidies they are given under No Child — part of the whatever government is doing it should do well that is an oft - forgotten tenet of modern conservatism — also forces it to take a more - prominent role in education policymaking.

Modern conservatism comes in two distinct architectural styles.

MINI has managed to do things moderately differently to most but generally speaking there's more conservatism in modern vehicle design than you'll find in Tony Abbotts» latest novella: «Hippies Must Die».