Conservatism is Not an Ideology

By |2018-10-01T18:10:52-05:00April 15th, 2012|Categories: Bradley J. Birzer, Conservatism, Ideology, Russell Kirk|

Russell Kirk deserves special attention on the topic of ideologies. In his twenty-nine books on politics, history, constitutional law, literature, social criticism, economics, and fiction, the legacy of the French Revolution and the loosening of the ideologues upon the world haunted him at a profound level. Tellingly, Kirk’s most important influence was Edmund Burke, the [...]