Restoring the meaning of conservatism: final reflections.

From: Modern Age | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

T.H. PICKETT's following essay on "War, Power, and Supremacy" further develops the urgent need stressed in the preceding three issues of Modern Age, "Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism." This need becomes even greater as the debate continues between traditional conservatives and ambitious usurpers. Actually this debate would itself be academic if the intrinsic historical and metaphysical bearings of conservatism had secured a foundational authority of definition and acceptance.

That the canons of conservatism must beg to be defended against present-day pretenders who mask ...

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