1.0 link 54255 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-de-zengotita/the-conservative-supreme-_b_54255.html I just today finished a piece of heavy academic writing about political philosophy in which I found myself (to my surprise) praising the great original of modern conservatives, Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797). I was writing about the tragic outcome of 20th century efforts to force communist perfection on vast populations in the manner of Lenin and Stalin and Mao. I was commending Burke's critique of the prototype of those tragedies -- Robespierre's reign of terror in the last...

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