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 ...

David Bromwich’s monograph proposes to answer the question: “What did it mean to think like Edmund Burke?” For John Morley and the Victorian Whigs, thinking like Burke meant thinking like a cool, ...

In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke took aim at Lord George Gordon, who had led the anti-Catholic riots that bore his name. By the time of the Reflections, Gordon resided in ...

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 ...