Thursday, July 04, 2013

Anniversary …

The University Bookman: The Conservative Mind at Sixty. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Kirk’s most important book was, as he described it, an analysis of a way of looking at the civil social order, not a set of policy prescription. Unlike many conservatives, Kirk knew cultural stability did not lay in party platforms or Supreme Court opinions, or at least not in those alone. The contributions to our symposium explore how Kirk’s creative re-imagining of a tradition—beginning with the Whig Edmund Burke and ending in Kirk’s volume with the Anglo-American poet T. S. Eliot …

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  1. It has been quite a long time since I looked at the book. Since then it has struck me as quite odd that Kirk should have bundled in both John Randolph and Henry Adams, given the mutual loathing between Randolph and the Adamses. And it would have slightly surprised Adams, at least up through middle life, to hear that he was conservative.

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