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About Gleaves Whitney

Gleaves Whitney is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. He is the Executive Director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. He was the Director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies from 2003-2020. Mr. Whitney has written, edited, or contributed to several books, including John Engler: The Man, the Leader & the Legacy, American Presidents: Farewell Messages to the Nation, and the revised edition of Russell Kirk’s The American Cause.

The Founding Fathers – Our First Neocons?

By Gleaves Whitney|2017-06-15T16:03:13-05:00August 7th, 2010|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Federalist Papers, Gleaves Whitney, Old Republic, Politics|

The imaginative conservative champions certain first principles in response to the fragmenting forces of modernity. Burke articulated a humane order to counter the “armed doctrines” of French revolutionaries in the eighteenth century; in turn, Kirk opposed the galloping statism and rapacious totalitarianism of the twentieth. These avatars set down principles that are drawn from the [...]

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