154. Ben Fleming - Edmund Burke: The Father of Everything Wrong with Conservatism

Ben Fleming and I get together to discuss Edmund Burke because of a series of exchanges on Twitter with Erin O’Toole where he suggested that what is needed today is “ordered liberty.” When we mocked this idea, he suggested that we might benefit from reading more Edmund Burke who is seen as the intellectual forefather of modern conservatism. Ben and I thought to ourselves, “Why not?” So we embraced the challenge and set out to read some Edmund Burke for ourselves, specifically his Reflections on the Revolution in France. I, for one, was glad that I finally got around to doing this reading. It was an interesting read and it explains a lot of what is wrong with so-called “conservatism” today. To his credit, Burke saw today coming. Unfortunately, his prescriptions simply lack any real ability to apply a limiting force on liberal modernity.

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