Edmund Burke

Senate Will Be a Diminished Place Without Lugar

Jim DiPeso | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Richard Mourdock, Edmund Burke, U.S. Senate, Richard Lugar, Dick Lugar, Senator Richard Lugar, Senator Dick Lugar, Politics News
Jim DiPeso

Lugar is a fount of knowledge on the most important public policy issues our country faces today, including energy, national security, foreign relations, the federal budget, and agriculture.

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What Is a Conservative?

Jim DiPeso | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Margaret Thatcher, Conservatism, Conservative, Conservatives, Ann Coulter, Russell Kirk, Edmund Burke, Politics News
Jim DiPeso

What is a conservative? The question has arisen as mercurial Republican voters search for that elusive presidential candidate who can make their conservative pulses quicken.

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Amy Lee

Fear Can Help You Appreciate Abstract Art: Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Fear, Art, Kendall Eskine, Cognitive Science, Aesthetics Study, Edmund Burke, Cognitive Science Studies, Embodied Cognition, Fear Art, Fear Art Study, Culture News

The next time you're having trouble appreciating Jackson Pollock, try seeing a horror movie first. According to a new study, feeling fear may actua...

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A Conservative Critique of High-Stakes Standardized Testing

Fred Bauer | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Education, No Child Left Behind, Edmund Burke, Race to the Top, George W. Bush, Standardized Testing, Conservatism, Education Reform, Barack Obama, Education News
Fred Bauer

Even as more money is being poured into testing-centric education "reform," there may be a space for classical conservatives and certain factions of the left to work together to expose the limits of the current testing ethos to provide a better foundation for the nation's education policies.

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"The Sounds of Silence": Songs About Silence and Shame for Penn State

David Wild | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Penn State, Simon & Garfunkel, Pearl Jam, Penn State Scandal, Annie Lennox, Edmund Burke, Joe Paterno, Bruce Springsteen, Sports News
David Wild

It's taken me a few days to begin to make any sense whatsoever of the disturbing and disgraceful story still unfolding at Penn State. Yet this much seems clear: what we are seeing at long last is another tragic example of the human cost of silence in the face of evil.

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The Growing Impossibility Of Interfaith Dialogue

Tony Campolo | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Clinton Global Initiative, Red Letter Christians, Edmund Burke, Religious Tolerance, Religious Extremism, Problems of Interfaith Dialogue, Inter-Religious Dialogue, Interfaith Engagement, Interfaith Dialogue, Inter-Religious Engagement, Religion News
Tony Campolo

In today's world, the voices of moderation are becoming fewer and fewer, while extremist groups are growing in size and are flexing more and more political muscle.

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A Campaign for Congress Worthy of Our Attention

Pearl Korn | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Dnc, Congress, Wisconsin, Debt Ceiling, Dick Durbin, Edmund Burke, Democracy for America, Democrats, Barack Obama, Tim Johnson, Pccc, Cnn, Scott Walker, Progressives United, Chicago, Tea Party, Republicans, Politics News
Pearl Korn

It has often been said that politics is not a spectator sport. There is no greater truth, especially these days. Yet we progressives do see glimmers of hope surfacing here and there, including in exciting places like Wisconsin.

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Henry Kissinger: Moral Midget Destined for Obscurity

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bruce Fein

At key points in his ego-driven career, Henry Kissinger was confronted with a choice between power and moral principle. He chose power, and became a moral dwarf.

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Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

Henry J. Stern | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matthew Goldstein, New York City Council, Term Limits, Mayor Bloomberg, Bill De Blasio, William Gladstone, Edmund Burke, New York News
Henry J. Stern

The Charter Revision Commission voted last night to postpone by 11 years the effective date when a two-term limit would take effect, even if the voters approve it in referendum this fall.

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Bromwich Channels Edmund Burke: "America is out of itself" (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christopher Lydon

David Bromwich is channeling the lost conservative voice of Edmund Burke, the missing wisdom on our mad Afghanistan misadventure.

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The Rand Paul Opportunity: Hang the Tea Party Albatross Around the GOP's Neck in 2010--Nationwide

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Social Security, Rand Paul, 2010 Elections, Edmund Burke, Salmonella, Fda, Libertarian, Osha, E. Coli, Sarah Palin, John Kyl, Rachel Maddow, Katie Couric, Michael Steele, Jack Conway, Kentucky, Medicare, Frank Luntz, Elections 2010, Politics News
Thomas de Zengotita

Grown-ups in the Republican party (it's relative thing) understand the danger of the Rand Paul candidacy going national. That's why they opposed him in the first place.

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An American Obsession with Freedom

Tony Blankley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conservatives, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Republicans, Edmund Burke, Politics News
Tony Blankley

The Obama administration and the Democrats crossed a line and touched a nerve in America's body politic. We sense our fundamental freedom endangered.

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Edmund Burke on Global Warming

Byron Kennard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Edmund Burke, Global Warming, Green News
Byron Kennard

The vast opposition of Republicans in Congress to climate change legislation strikes me as inconsistent with the tenets of modern conservatism laid down by Edmund Burke, the movement's patron saint.

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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Obama's Military Blind Spot?

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military Power, Dwight Eisenhower, Robert Gates, Richard Nixon, Edmund Burke, Mike Mullen, Nixon Center, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Obama would be wise to read up on Eisenhower, on Nixon, on Edmund Burke and others -- and realize that military answers to problems are leading the US to greater calamity, global irrelevance, and impotence.

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