Furthermore, writes Kirk, "Those framers must have some understanding of what Edmund Burke called ‘the contract of eternal society.’” This contract, linking the living with the preceding generations and with generations yet unborn, is bound up with...

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." (Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night [The New American Library, 1968], 185)...

But, as in the exercise of all virtues, there is an economy of truth." Newspaper headlines must be hard-hitting and blunt to earn their space on the news stands. I have been a journalist much of my life, and I know this to be a standard of the noble...

Blair was a coalition politician, the coalition being, in his case, one of political ideas. His “New Labour” was part Margaret Thatcher, part Clement Attlee; part Edmund Burke, part Aneurin Bevan; part Milton Friedman, part John Maynard Keynes; part...

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." (Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night [The New American Library, 1968], 185)...

Whig, and disapproved of the party system. His method was to lead by policy, and to get his votes through (though often opposed even by some of his own ministers) by persuasion and deal making, not by solidarity and the use of the party whips. MPs of...