William A. Van Den Broek
Most of politics is shouting at the wrong question.
I write the answers using Aristotle, Aquinas, Burke, Kirk, and Sowell. One essay a week, at conservatism.net.
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Send me the next essayI write about the things conservatism used to stand for before it became a brand: virtue, the family, the permanent things, the West as a moral inheritance.
The argument here is not that the right is correct and the left is wrong. It is that most of modern politics — left and right — has lost the philosophical ground it would need to answer the actual questions. So I go back to the sources. Aristotle, Aquinas, Burke, Kirk, Sowell. Then I apply them.
I am not interested in winning the week. I am interested in arguments that are still standing in fifty years.
Founder of the Encyclopedia of Conservatism. Weekly essays at conservatism.net.