Thursday, August 2, 2012  "What Would Burke Do?"  That's the
title of this post by Daniel McCarthy over at The American
Conservative. As McCarthy writes, Burke's high church
sensibility was reflected in his political views. A champion of
ordered liberty, Burke sought to protect the legitimate
aspirations of dissenters to freedom within the British Empire
while at the same time crafting a politics of prudence that
would increase the stability of the British Empire by fostering
justice and limited government. McCarthy does a fantastic job of
comparing the high church conservatism of men like Burke and
Kirk with the low church and no church varieties that dominate
much of the discourse within the conservative movement in
America. Well worth a read.