Given recent events, it is ironic that conservatism was born in opposition to mobs. And not just any mobs: French ones. The British philosopher Edmund Burke swerved to the right in October of 1789, ...

Several years ago, when writing a book proposal for a fresh look at one of the most contentious figures in modern political thought, I toyed with calling the project “The Last Remake of Edmund Burke.” ...

Though it may not reflect well on my credentials as a writer for a publication with “Conservative” in its name, I must admit that two weeks ago I had never read that pillar of modern conservatism, ...

I am pleased to see that my friend Jeff Hart has not misplaced his ability to spark debate. Like many others, I was surprised by some of Jeff’s comments, both in his Wall Street Journal piece several ...

Edmund Burke, the eighteenth-century British politician and writer, is today best known for Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in 1790. In it, Burke denounced the revolutionaries in ...

Had it not been for the revolution in France, Edmund Burke would likely have been remembered, a bit vaguely, as an 18th-century philosopher-statesman of extravagant rhetorical gifts but frustratingly ...

The tensions of a dawning democratic era are dissected in this incisive dual biography of two celebrated 18th-century British statesmen. Journalist Grant (Bagehot) recaps the careers of Burke, a sober ...