
Where Did Conservatism Go? A Conversation with Yoram Hazony
New Books in Politics and Polemics
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The Importance of Restoration in the Anglo-American Tradition
There is a conception that more traditionalist conservatism is like anti-change completely. Is that valid? Or is there some kind of metric by which we can decide when change is helpful and when it's not? First of all, the Anglo-American tradition is not against change. There are exceptions. Michael Okshaw does an exception. The question for the conservative is change is inevitable and the question is what do you do about it? And so this goes to your yardstick question. How can you tell that something has failed? Look, some things are just obvious. If people don't stop killing each other and if people are starving, if foreign invaders are having success and taking over your
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