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Prudence might seem the last virtue that should be consulted in our present climate. To some, it indicates timidity, undue caution, and a moral hesitancy to do the things that are most needed. Others associate it with cunning, the savvy achievement of narrow ends.
Does rereading the great 18th-century statesman, political philosopher, and economic thinker hold the key to resolving the tensions within American conservatism today?
A central driver The unchanging constitution no longer ensures stability: quite the reverse. As shown by the January 6 attempted coup, it brings instability. Daniel Lazare defends his long held position James Creegan criticises me on multiple counts in his recent article dealing with the January 6 attack on the US Capitol (‘Drivers that led to January 6’ 18). He says I exaggerate in describing the uprising as an “attempted coup [that] was all too real” and which had “a significant chance” of plunging the country into “the depths of authoritarianism”. He says I underesti...
KC Burke AND also now in the Phoenix Valley since I have moved out here. "All which a man without authority can give, -- his unbiased opinion, his honest advice, and his best reasons." Edmund Burke(1791.) "The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time; so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and to save the world from suicide." T.S. Eliot, Christianity and Cultu...