Sentences with phrase «modern conservatism»

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

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

7 - Edmund Burke: An Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, Burke has generally been viewed as the founder of modern conservatism as well as a representative of classic liberalism.

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).

We can also understand modern political conservatism as having arisen to assault and reverse the apocalypticism ushered in by the French and Russian revolutions, and if modern theology in virtually all of its expressions is deeply anti-apocalyptic, this, too, could be understood as a uniquely modern conservatism.

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.

An agenda for a new modern Conservatism.

There was little thinking on what modern Conservatism might be like.

[6] In 2014 the conservative academics David Starkey and Roger Scruton joined the advisory board of the Bow Group, [7] with professor Scruton addressing the Group on the difference between modern Conservatism and ideological conservatism.

Indeed, these demands have come to characterize modern conservatism and several Republican contenders rode these platform planks to victory during the 2010 - midterm elections.

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.

Modern conservatism comes in two distinct architectural styles.

He's tapped into a new spirit in modern conservatism, the rebellious snarkiness that links Glenn Beck and the Fox network to James O'Keefe, the undercover filmmaker who made the ACORN «pimp» video.

Nash's necessarily cursory Epilogue introduces the two other voices of modern conservatism: the neoconservatives and the religious right.

While many conservatives still embrace faith, and defend the Judeo - Christian heritage, the idea that modern conservatism is synonymous with faith and tradition has lost traction.

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.

This is particularly surprising for us today, for we tend to know Burke, when we do, as the father of modern conservatism, while we have come to understand America's founding principles as resolutely liberal and progressive.

Collini has called this the «disabling paradox of modern conservatism»; or «the deep structural dilemma of the modern Tory social critic: the forces that are destroying all that he loves are the forces he is ideologically committed to supporting».

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.

The Eton - educated MP also brings a love of love of the theatre, an interest in football and a track record as an author of books (among his most recent work is a 2013 biography of Edmund Burke, considered to be the philosophical founder of modern conservatism).

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

That is the central idea which has brought me into politics as a Conservative, and which I am delighted is once again the idea at the heart of modern Conservatism and this coalition.»

As author Kevin Kruse explains in White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism, vouchers were part of a deliberate strategy in the 1950s and 1960s to circumvent school desegregation: «In the event of court ordered desegregation, school buildings would be closed, and students would receive grants to attend private, segregated schools.»