He said: «We are failing to understand some of the profound shifts that are occurring
in modern Conservatism.
Not exact matches
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».