Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative ThoughtWilliam F. Buckley (Jr.), Charles R. Kesler |
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... conservative politics over the past forty years , though seldom articulated , has been to build a conservative Republican majority . This goal is paramount precisely because without it all the other things that conservatives have sought ...
... conservative politics over the past forty years , though seldom articulated , has been to build a conservative Republican majority . This goal is paramount precisely because without it all the other things that conservatives have sought ...
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... conservative principle has been defended , these past hundred and fifty years , by men of learning and genius , as well . To review conservative ideas , examining their validity for this perplexed age , is the purpose of this book ...
... conservative principle has been defended , these past hundred and fifty years , by men of learning and genius , as well . To review conservative ideas , examining their validity for this perplexed age , is the purpose of this book ...
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... conservative principles of government , there are social goals for a conservative welfare state . The first is to strengthen what Burke called the " little platoons " that are , even more meaningfully than individuals , the molecular ...
... conservative principles of government , there are social goals for a conservative welfare state . The first is to strengthen what Burke called the " little platoons " that are , even more meaningfully than individuals , the molecular ...
Contents
Preface by William F Buckley Jr | 1 |
You Ever See a Dream Walking? by William | 19 |
The Quest for a Tradition | 37 |
Copyright | |
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