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Why I AM a Conservative

John Willson It’s really too bad that so many wimps are running away from the word “conservative.” It’s become fashionable. Now, don’t get me wrong. When Billy Kristol claims that the “Weakly Standard” is conservative, I at least chuckle. When Fox News is called “right wing” I giggle. When the psychiatrist Dr. Krauthammer positions himself [...]

Russell Kirk’s Ten Principles of Conservatism

By Russell Kirk|2018-10-16T20:26:08-05:00July 11th, 2010|Categories: Community, Conservatism, RAK, Russell Kirk, W. Winston Elliott III|

Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. [...]