Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate
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The Dangers of Crowdsourcing
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.
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