During these long months, that movement of solidarity with the vulnerable needed a Thomas Paine. “These are the times that try men's souls,” he might have written just before the last year of the ...
One of the most eloquent rejoinders to the veneration of tradition in conservative thought comes from the American revolutionary Thomas Paine, who criticized Burke’s opposition to the French ...
And, he goes on, it has historically defined itself against the movements it opposes. One of the most eloquent rejoinders to the veneration of tradition in conservative thought comes from the American ...
The evergreen questions raised by the label "conservative" are: Conserving what and from whom? Modern-day conservatives don't necessarily want to protect or "conserve" the same things as their ...