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Conservatism as a philosophy of change

18 October 2021

4:00 AM

18 October 2021

4:00 AM

Conservatism is a philosophy of change. Not that this is well recognised by its chorus of hyperventilating critics, nor particularly well understood and articulated by its increasingly rowdy proponents.

It was no less than Edmund Burke, that great unwitting progenitor of conservatism, who observed in his celebrated critique of the French Revolution that “a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”

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