I think of Burke's view as being a pragmatist view in the philosophical sense. He recognizes the limits of reason and he relies on tradition. What we now would would glibly call crowdsourcing or the wisdom of crowds is a way of improving society rather than the engineering top-down approach. So I'm very sympathetic to the Burkeian, the philosophical underpinnings of Burke.
Yuval Levin, author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas of Burke and Paine and their influence on the evolution of political philosophy. Levin outlines the differing approaches of the two thinkers to liberty, authority, and how reform and change should take place. Other topics discussed include Hayek's view of tradition, Cartesian rationalism, the moral high ground in politics, and how the "right and left" division of American politics finds its roots in the debates of these thinkers from the 1700s.