In Defense of Politics | Professor Erik Dempsey
The Thomistic Institute
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The Conservatism of Chesterton and Thomas
I'm gonna talk about Chesterton's conservatism or the prudent conservatism of Chesterton and Thomas. And I think by the end you'll see what I mean when I say these are two ways of talking about the same thing, but I think conceptually it's helpful to divide them up so that we can do a kind of proper tour of these parts of their thought. He has a famous line on conservatives and progressives in an essay of his called The Blunders of Our Parties. This one's not on your handout, but I'm gonna read the quote at some length.Chesterton had little patience for stuffy old nostalgia, for old things, and brainless attachments to doing things the
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