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Burke saw his position as hardheaded and pragmatic. In 1772 he wrote to an ally in Parliament, the Duke of Richmond, “You people of

Burke is famous for insisting on gradual change, reforming abuses but never tearing down the inherited structure in order to replace it with something

As early as 1790 Burke published his great Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he foretold brilliantly how even the most well-intentioned

Burke saw the social contract as an intricate web of shared associations, “a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those

Big Chief Elizabeth (Giles Milton) – Highlight Loc. 2698-2701 | Added on Sunday, November 08, 2009, 07:12 PM quite the same enthusiasm. His highly

The socialism that soon afterward became so attractive to me as an alternative proved equally insubstantial; with time, I came to understand, through the

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.152 … Here we may reign

His studies, which spanned more than fifteen years, were eventually published in the 2005 book Expert Political Judgment. Tetlock’s conclusion was damning. The experts

“When I was a boy—a bourgeois boy—that term was applied to my social class by the class above it. Bourgeois meant ‘not aristocratic, therefore

“Obedience or subjection becomes so familiar that most men never make any inquiry about its origin or cause, more than about the principle of