Sentences with phrase «of 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.

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).

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

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.

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».

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.»

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.

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).

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.»