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Noel O’Sullivan puts it well:
In the Vindication of the English Constitution he had indeed professed allegiance to the ideal of a balanced constitution, and consequently insisted that the House of Commons alone could not be regarded as the representative of the nation; it was, on the contrary, merely the representative of one estate of the [...]
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I have a review of the new book by George H. Nash, dean of conservative historians, up at History News Network here.
Filed under: Books, Conservatism
No, but this is what people who connect Hobbes and liberalism have in mind (from de Jasay’s masterpiece, The State):
Recalling the regimes of Walpole, Metternich, Melbourne or Louis Philippe (only more so), with a blend of indifference, benign neglect and a liking for amenities and comforts, the capitalist state must have sufficient hauteur not to [...]
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Very interesting piece on Thomas Hobbes in The Nation, all the more interesting for being a blend of fairly astute political philosophy and a hard-left political agenda. I’ve been intending to read up on the Hobbes literature — in the past few weeks I’ve acquired Hobbes on Civil Association (Oakeshott), Hobbes and Republican Liberty (Skinner, [...]
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A little over a decade ago as an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis I started a campus conservative paper called the Washington Witness. It’s still going, at least intermittently. I’ve continued to contribute the occasional piece, such as this one, since beginning to make a living out of what I used to do [...]
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I could almost recommend subscribing to National Review just for Florence King’s column. Her latest says in two paragraphs what I tried to say in “Every Man a God-King“:
If the season of town-hall meetings has left you shell-shocked and cringing, you are not alone. Or maybe it’s the other way around: You applauded the apoplectic [...]
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What’s happening to Sam Tanenhaus? Whether he’s any kind of a conservative or not is moot, but he used to be an interesting thinker. In this interview with Newsweek, the Death of Conservatism author might as well be reading from a script written by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Let’s have more bipartisanship, he says, and let’s [...]
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At CPAC last February I participated in panel on the life and legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. My copanelists — James Panero of the New Criterion and Matthew Continetti of the Weekly Standard — and I had three very different takes on this founding father of Cold War conservatism. We mixed it up enjoyably, [...]
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John Payne offers some thoughts on the case for secession. This is a popular topic among paleoconservatives and many libertarians — both groups like the decentralist implications of secession. The former (and some of the latter) feel great affinity for the old South, and the libertarians are acutely aware that secession is one of the [...]
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A friend asked me whether I’d comment on the clash between James Poulos and his “Postmodern Conservatives” and the localists at the Front Porch Republic. I replied that Patrick Deneen had already made the point that I would have made: “PoMoCons are uneasily but pretty firmly aligned with the Republican party as it has been [...]
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