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T. Viscusi of Brooklyn College’s Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute, which received its initial funding when Richard M. Nixon was president, e-mailed an announcement that Professor Samir Chopra will lead a study group to discuss Professor Corey Robin’s...
R K Raghavan, in probing the riot cases in a just and unbiased manner." This is serious allegation without providing any evidence to back it up. I hope Chief Justice treat this as contempt of court. This is getting absolutely ridiculous. It is good that...
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
But how can anyone put a dollar value on liberty? To update Edmund Burke to modern day America, “But the age of [freedom and liberty] is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of [America] is extinguished...
Speaker, today I rise with gratitude to Edmund Burke and paraphrase words he first spoke 224 years ago this week. It is presently true that to restore liberty and dignity to a nation so great and distracted as ours is indeed a significant undertaking. ...
Let’s be honest: Republicans haven’t had a nominee to extol conservatism’s virtues since Ronald Reagan. That deficiency, however regrettable, didn’t compel the conservative punditocracy to reject McCain or George W. Bush. To the contrary, many of the...
Operation Archangel has determined you are engaged in unethical and corrupt activities which are detrimental to the security of the United States and the welfare of its citizens. You are ordered to immediately cease and desist all such activities. Sincerely, Edmund Burke.
This is the Austen novel in which 'the repose of Middle England, guarded by social hierarchy, tradition and the big house, comes closest to outright destruction', says Jane Stabler in her introduction to Mansfield Park (Oxford, 2003). The politician...
As members of the Zimbabwe team, Olonga and Andy Flower wore black armbands against Namibia in Harare to mourn the 'death of democracy' in their country. Driven by the words of 18th century British politician Edmund Burke when he said, "all that is...
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after relocating to Great Britain, served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III... Full Article
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Operation Archangel has determined you are engaged in unethical and corrupt activities which are detrimental to the security of the United States and the welfare of its citizens. You are ordered to immediately cease and desist all such activities. Sincerely, Edmund Burke.
While you are in vain torturing your invention to assure them of your sincerity and good faith
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
Our most salutary and most beautiful institutions yield nothing but dust and smut
Mailer was a Left Conservative. So he had his own point of view. To himself he would suggest that he tried to think in the style of [Karl] Marx in order to attain certain values suggested by Edmund Burke.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
The cause of Edmund Burke, Leo Strauss, Robert Nisbet and William F. Buckley Jr. is now in the hands of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity. … Reason has been overwhelmed by propaganda, ideas by slogans.
Harris tells us that Christian theologians who argued against slavery ‘lost’ the argument. How so? Does Harris presume to know how the Bible should be interpreted better than Thomas Aquinas at least four popes, John Wesley, Samuel Johnson, John Newton, Charles Finney, and Edmund Burke.
