All traditions must be created. Conservatism, as we know it, is a tradition created after 1945. It rested on two pillars. Each was a synthesis, constructed for the needs of its time. Its ideology was the “Burke to Kirk” syllabus, a heritage of liberty from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk. Burke and Kirk were patricians, “elitists” as we would now say. The intellectual license to govern still needed a popular stamp. The........

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