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17 Sep 2010, 9:51 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Conservative giant Russell Kirk's critique of populism strikes me as somehow timely: A Populist, whose basic conviction is that the cure for democracy is more democracy, conserves nothing - even though he may wish to do so. [read post]
3 Mar 2016, 9:22 pm by Steve Bainbridge
No one had a bigger impact on the development of my political views than did Russell Kirk, whom I never had the privilege of meeting, but whose written work had a profound impact on my thinking. [read post]
5 Sep 2013, 5:22 pm by Steve Bainbridge
I learned politics from reading Russell Kirk and his essay on political errors keeps coming to mind as I ponder Obama making the same errors that Bush made by waging wars of choice in the Middle... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
9 Dec 2006, 1:12 pm
It is somewhat ironic that Steve Bainbridge would cite Russell Kirk's ideas as a basis for a renewed conservative-libertarian fusionism. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 4:31 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Whenever the United States decides to engage in one of its miliutary adventures in the Middle east, I am reminded of Russell Kirk's essay on Bush 41's Iraq policy, in which he argued that: Now indubitably Saddam Hussein is unrighteous; but so are nearly all the masters of the "emergent" African states (with the Ivory Coast as a rare exception), and so are the grim ideologues who rule China, and the hard men in the Kremlin, and a great many other public… [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 9:17 pm by Steve Bainbridge
As Russell Kirk observed: Are we to saturation-bomb most of Africa and Asia into righteousness, freedom, and democracy? [read post]
11 Nov 2016, 4:36 pm by Steve Bainbridge
The book that made me a conservative: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk https://t.co/FIwhSKcggw via @amazon — Professor Bainbridge (@ProfBainbridge) November 12, 2016 The... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 2:21 pm by Steve Bainbridge
How can a listing of almost 50 books that are supposedly the best books on American conservatism include novels by Ayn Rand, Tom Wolfe, John Updike, and Robert Heinlein, as well as two books by apostate Garry Wills, and nothing by Russell Kirk? [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 9:52 am by Steve Bainbridge
The great American conservative philosopher Russell Kirk argued that "conservatives are guided by their principle of prudence. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 12:56 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Russell Kirk once asked: Are we to saturation-bomb most of Africa and Asia into righteousness, freedom, and democracy? [read post]
4 Aug 2007, 12:24 pm
Russell Kirk famously laid out 10 conservative principles. [read post]
5 Dec 2009, 3:16 pm
Larry Ribstein's ideas on federalism approaches to health care Rick Hills' comments on Ribstein's ideas James Joyner's musings on a "war skeptic" right Russell Kirk's essay Political Errors at the End of the Twentieth Century is an outstanding example of a war skeptical conservative argument Kevin Drum clearly understands that politics is about rent seeking, so why doesn't he understand that bigger government inevitably results from… [read post]
30 Dec 2011, 9:05 am by Steve Shiffrin
Dreher is a communitarian conservative in the tradition of Russell Kirk (who, among other things, emphasized the importance of small towns). [read post]
21 Jul 2014, 12:36 pm by Steve Bainbridge
“…ambition without pious restraint must end in failure" [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
1 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm by Buce
The conservatism of people like George Carey was the appreciation for the “permanent things,” as Russell Kirk always called them. [read post]
30 Dec 2018, 5:59 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Many of the scientific specimens he lifted were part of Alfred Russel Wallace’s seminal birds-of-paradise collection…” [read post]
24 Apr 2013, 11:53 am by ilpc
The sentence, issued by the Honorable Kirk G. [read post]