Tag: Conservatism
-
2021-12-20
Modernism
I do not want to disown all the good things that come with the modern world, and I don't think that we can turn back the clock. What I want to resist is not modernity but modernism.
-
2019-10-09
Traditionalism
Traditionalism is best understood as an orientation toward the timeless truth rather than an attachment to old ideas simply because they are old.
-
2019-06-10
Conservatism and Ideology
Ideologies are overly simplistic views of the world, which support themselves through slogans. While slogans may be practically indispensable in a democracy, conservatism is something more.
-
2017-09-14
Culture of Repudiation
Roger Scruton identifies a feature of academic life that has become singularly disagreeable to me.
-
2017-07-16
Sincerity Formulated into Dogma
James Russell Lowell explains that passion and sincerity are not enough.
-
2017-05-28
Simplicity Leads to Despotism
Russell Kirk explains the connection between ideological simplicity and despotism.
-
2017-05-18
Burke on Moral Order
The awful Author of our being is the author of our place in the order of existence...