There is a romance to conservatism which I’ve often felt but had difficulty communicating.  The depth and grandeur of conservatism comes from its non-systematic nature, how it taps the imagination and the heart as well as the mind.  It is a way of viewing the world that tries to feel for the Permanent Things of [...]

Tags: Conservatism, Liberty

I meant to post this awhile ago, but seem to have forgotten. So here it is, an excellent article by Daniel McCarthy in The American Conservative, “What would Burke do?” Excerpt: For the low church conservative, politics is teleocratic—a purpose-driven activity. In the language of British philosopher Michael Oakeshott (very much a high church type), [...]

Tags: Anglicanism, Conservatism, Edmund Burke, Nota Bene, Subsidiarity

An interview with Jean Bethke-Elshtain, one of my favorite professors from UofC, on the works and thought of Vaclav Havel: So we have in a sense politicized the private and privatized the political, and it’s very hard for us to think about what is of authentically public concern, about what concerns all of us in [...]

Tags: Jean Bethke-Elshtain, Nota Bene, Philosophy, Politics, University of Chicago, Vaclav Havel