The conservative sensibility
"A monumental new reflection on American conservatism and the Founders' political tradition. For more than four decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. T...
| Main Author: | Will, George F. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Hachette Books,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The founders' epistemological assertion : they knew what can be known
- The progressives' revision : an emancipation (from natural rights) proclamation
- Progressivism's institutional consequences : the presidency triumphant, the administrative state rampant, Congress dormant
- The judicial supervision of democracy : difficulties with the "counter-majoritarian difficulty"
- Political economy : rescuing the great enrichment from the fatal conceit
- Culture and opportunity : the scissors that shredded old convictions
- The aims of education : talents for praising and for pessimism
- Going abroad : a creedal nation in a world on probation
- Welcoming whirl : conservatism without theism
- Borne back : the quest for a useable past.