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Edmund Burke

Filippino Lippi, Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas over the Heretics (1489–1491). Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, Italy

Is Culture Conservative? — Part I

‘People generally agree that no human society is “without culture”. The concept has been defined in many different ways. The first appearance of the term culture is attributed to Cicero, who used the word in the sense of “cultivation of…

Material Consumerism: Our Path Towards an Unhappy Consciousness

‘As modern consumer society has made consumption the root of identity, man has become a prisoner of the constant renewal of consumer demands…Contrary to early capitalist societies, people have completely reduced themselves to the self-as-consumer. The short excitement that accompanies…
The Land of Cockaigne (detail) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1567)

A Burkean Antidote to Our Utopian Delusions

‘To maintain social order, legitimate authority needs to be guarded so that popular sovereignty cannot derail in a popularity contest, which we witness today, for example in the American elections. It means that our leaders need to be honest about…
Pompeiian fresco depicting a multigenerational banquet or family ceremony (before 79 AD). Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy

Family Politics: The Role of the Family in Political Thinking

‘Families are the foundation for coherent political communities. Indeed, they are the foundation for nations. Nations are usually tied together by a set of common origins based on history, geography, traditions, and blood ties. A person’s ties to their nation…
Daniel Pitt

‘Political families have to battle on the intellectual and the political level’ — A Conversation with Dr Daniel Pitt, Teaching Associate at the University of Sheffield 

‘You have to have different levels of political engagement. You have to win at different levels, the intellectual level, the battle of ideas level, you’ve got to win at this level. And then you’ve got the next level down, that…
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson(1789, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Democracy and the Concept of Authority

‘In today’s democracy, authority is in crisis because real authority cannot follow from mere quantity. Quantity is always relative, and the thing what is ‘never identical to itself’ cannot awaken the intuition of true respect, true authority, and true supremacy….

The Problem with Contemporary Liberalism

‘The term “liberal” was undoubtedly originally associated with the aristocratic spirit of freedom and generosity (in Latin: liberalitas), which, recognizing a natural hierarchy among individual beings, finds diversity welcome and does not desire to make things equal in all circumstances….
Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789.

Edmund Burke on Democracy: Reflections on the ‘Best of All Possible Worlds’ — Part II

The first part of this article concerned itself with Burke’s general notions related to democracy. This part explores how he addressed the topic in his pamphlet on the French Revolution….
William of Orange III and his Dutch Army Land in Brixham, 1688 by Hoynck van Papendrecht, J.

Edmund Burke on Democracy: Reflections on the ‘Best of All Possible Worlds’ — Part I

Edmund Burke is widely revered in conservative circles. However, due to the taboos of modern politics, his views on democracy are seldom debated….
The statue of Edmund Burke outside Trinity College in Dublin.

Reviewing a Conservative Classic–Reflections on the Revolution in France by Burke

Burke’s work conveys a deep message for modern societies: ‘…it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society.’…

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