profile of the Roberts Court Sep 23, 2009
The image of the Supreme Court as a great righter of wrongs, ingrained among liberals by the stirring cases of the Warren Court--school desegregation; one man, one vote; right to counsel; and so on--has no power over a judge so rooted in the conservatism of the 18th century, of Samuel Johnson and Edmund Burke, a mind-set always focused on the fact that even well-intended changes often go awry. In which case, no one should be surprised that Roberts has turned out to be an uncompromising... (Harper's Magazine)
24 comment(s) Sep 22, 2009
It's inevitable that President Obama's socialist grab will ignite emotions. Connecting You to Your Community Lodi, California. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Aiken, Augusta Prep shine at meet Sep 22, 2009
REACHING A MILESTONE: Curtis Baptist starting pitcher Nicole Young earned her 500th career strikeout during a game against Edmund Burke on Sept. 10. The four-year starter recorded eight strikeouts in the contest. (The Augusta Chronicle)
It's inevitable that President Obama's socialist grab will ignite emotions Sep 22, 2009
Connecting You to Your Community Lodi, California. September 21st, 2009. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Open Forum: Let's return to manners and civility Sep 19, 2009
" Edmund Burke said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. " Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (www.mccl.org) has planned free meetings throughout the state to help everyone make a difference and save lives. Let's not be silent about things that matter. In Staples the meeting will be Sunday, Sept. 20, 7-9 p.m. at Sacred Heart Church on Fourth Street. Lorrie Toedter Staples Government is the problem In 1937, under FDR (Democrat), our government decided... (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Five Alternatives to Mark Levin Sep 17, 2009
Scattered here and there in other courses one can find a few conservative or counterrevolutionary texts: Edmund Burke s , perhaps Joseph de Maistre s St. Petersburg Dialogues ... In an era when it was often taken for granted that America was a fundamentally liberal nation, a creation of the Enlightenment and revolution, Kirk argued that there was a persistent, if diversified, conservatism running from the English statesman Edmund Burke through the American Revolution, the Constitution, both the... (The American Conservative)
Top 10 Books Every College Student Should Read Sep 15, 2009
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in FranceAll conservatives pay lip-service to this classic, not enough have actually read it. That s a shame because it is memorably, beautifully written and provides a necessary check on the unreflecting populism of some conservatives. (Human Events Online)
Inhale a book, exhale wisdom Sep 15, 2009
But this trend parallels the loss of respect for books, which represent the shoulders of giants on whom we stand looking backward at the wisdom that came before us, to paraphrase Edmund Burke. The teacher, who has studied the books solid and unchanged by random strokes of the keyboard should offer a repository of wisdom. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Revanchists Vs Burkeans Sep 10, 2009
That is the work of "true conservatives" like Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli, who actually conserve instead of overthrowing. 2009 New York Review of Books. (The American Conservative)
The Trouble With Tanenhaus Sep 10, 2009
Tanenhaus states that Edmund Burke, the great originator of modern conservatism, did not propose a counter-ideology ... Well, Edmund Burke for one. (The American Conservative)
No Requiem for a Twitching Corpse Sep 4, 2009
Trilling as literary critic asks the ever-relevant question: "What might lie behind our good impulses?" Like Tanenhaus, he looks to Edmund Burke, who understood how "light and reason" and the noblest ideas behind the French Revolution ran into a dead end of barbarism ... He regards Bill Clinton and Barack Obama as "model contemporary presidents," comparing them to Edmund Burke in their talent for adjusting their ambitions to the realities of the moment. (Townhall.com)
Conservatism's Exaggerated Death Sep 4, 2009
He is right that conservatives today need "to rethink and reevaluate." And he is right that conservatives would profit from reconsidering the writings and political careers of Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli, founding fathers of that form of modern conservatism devoted to conserving the moral and political conditions of freedom ... Genuine conservatism, according to Tanenhaus, is the classical conservatism of the great 18th-century Whig Edmund Burke and the great 19th-century Tory Benjamin... (CBS News -- Opinion)
Brooks s Barack Sep 2, 2009
But, as they chewed over the finer points of Edmund Burke, it didn t take long for the two men to click. I don t want to sound like I m bragging, Brooks recently told me, but usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don t know political philosophy better than me. (The American Conservative)
Conservative Curriculum Quotas? Aug 28, 2009
John Rawls, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, J. S. Mill, J.-J. Rousseau, Howard Zinn, Robert Nozick, Ayn Rand, Russell Kirk, Paulo Freire, C. Wright Mills, Ludwig von Mises, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Oakeshott, Eric Voegelin, Albert Jay Nock, Reinhold Niebuhr, Charles Reich, Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, Alasdair MacIntyre, William F. Buckley, Barbara Ehrenreich, Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charles Taylor, F.A. Hayek. Who is missing. (The American Conservative)
Friday, August 28, 2009 Aug 28, 2009
Le Chat Noir Theatre * 304 8th Street :Mr (The Augusta Chronicle)
Sweden's shame over Israeli 'organ theft' nonstory Aug 27, 2009
As Edmund Burke reminded us many years ago: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." To that I may add, "or say nothing." The time has come for Swedish officials to tell the world what they really think of this blood libel. Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School. (Christian Science Monitor)
The Country Curmudgeon: Another sneak attack Aug 21, 2009
As Edmund Burke once said, The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Roy Hicks, a Payette resident, writes a weekly column for the Argus Observer. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
* The rise of anti-Muslim xenophobia Aug 21, 2009
Remarkably, Caldwell, who is a senior editor with the neoconservative Weekly Standard, does not appear to know that Edmund Burke, from whom he derives his book title, had a rather exaggerated reverence for Muhammadan law. . (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Bagehot: The vanity of ideas Aug 21, 2009
His thinking combines bits of Disraeli and Edmund Burke with a somewhat fluffy nostalgia. But red Toryism may be too morally censorious, and too hostile to big business, to fit the bill. (The Economist)
Conservative Paradoxy Aug 6, 2009
The central paradox pervades the writing of Edmund Burke. Rightly recognized as having informally and unofficially but powerfully launched modern conservatism in 1790 with his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke cherished two fundamental goods, liberty and tradition, that do not obviously cohere and sometimes obviously conflict. (The American Conservative)
Musings after a trip to Maine Aug 5, 2009
That book of Edmund Burke essays. Not one page. (Boston Globe)
Utopia Versus Freedom Aug 4, 2009
Back in the 18th century, Edmund Burke said, "It is no inconsiderable part of wisdom, to know much of an evil ought to be tolerated" and "I must bear with infirmities until they fester into crimes.". But today's crusading zealots are not about to tolerate evils or infirmities. (Townhall.com)
GOP mustn’t spurn academic pedigree Jul 31, 2009
They quote Ronald Reagan, but not Edmund Burke. The intellectual underpinnings of smaller and smarter government have been replaced with incoherent ramblings and public confessions. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Somalia: UN Calls for 'Green Zone' in Strife-Torn Country Jul 31, 2009
Lamenting the inaction by the Security Council, he quoted the British philosopher Edmund Burke, who once remarked: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.". The African country has been torn apart by continuing strife over the last 20 years. (allAfrica.com)
Obama's medical plan: Let's do something! Jul 29, 2009
To quote Edmund Burke, "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to take over the world is for enough good men (and women) to do nothing." Let's all do something. Virginia SnyderLodi. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Who gets the flute? The fairplay riddle Jul 26, 2009
About two and a half months before the storming of the Bastille in Paris, which was effectively the beginning of the French Revolution, the political philosopher and orator, Edmund Burke, said i 00004000 n Parliament in London: 'An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. This was on 5 May 1789. (India Times, India)
Joe Scarborough Goes Paleo -- Maybe Jul 24, 2009
Instead of Bush, Scarborough takes his cues from Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, and more familiar figures such as Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr. Sometimes Scarborough s invocation of such grand figures sits uneasily with his prose, which reflects his background in campaign speeches and television soundbites: [L]ike Bill Buckley I have a lot of Burke in me, and Burke s thinking starts with this: Respect reality. Understand the age you re living in, understand its facts. (The American Conservative)
Why I Joined 'The Wanted' Jul 20, 2009
We are reminded of that quote (often attributed to Edmund Burke) that all that it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing ... I remember what Edmund Burke said about 250 years ago: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.". (Human Events Online)
Santa's little helper Jul 12, 2009
Almost by definition, character comprises great strengths and certain winning flaws -- does anybody remember Edmund Burke. Related links. (FOX61, CT)
A wide-ranging and clear-eyed examination of the history of American conservatism Jul 12, 2009
Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater are mentioned, almost in passing, but the real emphasis is on Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Edmund Burke, Calvin Colton, Rufus Choate (who. you re wondering). (Boston Globe)
Obama sets a new foreign policy course Jul 8, 2009
Conservativism as a political ideology owes its origins to the reactions of Chateaubriand and Edmund Burke to the French Revolution, they espousing the ideas of the American Revolution. The GOP owes its origins to the anti-constitutional elements of the Know Nothings of the 1850s. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
LETTERS: NCT, July 3, 2009 Jul 3, 2009
"Bill HomannSan MarcosThe real Fourth of July messageI'm investigating the Declaration of Independence, which says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident," a circular argument validating itself. I'm using an objective arbiter, Edmund Burke, to contrast the term "consent of the governed" with his basis of a civil society: "that no man should be judge in his own cause. " What do you think people will consent to but the part of them that needs to be governed? The proof is in your own government,... (North County Times)
Economy takes toll on annual camp Jul 1, 2009
Advertisement The Endeavour Camp is taking at least one summer off due to the economy, founder and chairman Edmund Burke said. The Endeavour board has decided to postpone Endeavour Camp 2009 (14th Annual) until the economy Improves, Burke wrote on the organization s Web site. (Santa Maria Times)
Private schools launch football programs Jun 28, 2009
Westminster will field a junior varsity team this year for its ninth and 10th graders and has already scheduled games with established area programs such as Edmund Burke and Augusta Christian, which competes in South Carolina's private schools league ... Here are some key dates: - Aug. 20 vs. Edmund Burke: Both teams will play at Spartans, a GISA Class AA school - Sept. 4 vs. Central Fellowship (Macon): Will be the program's lone home game - Oct. 1 vs. Cannon School: JV game at former headmaster... (The Augusta Chronicle)
The Re-writing of Ghanas History Jun 23, 2009
I believe we all do know about that famous quote of Edmund Burke: it now sounds almost clich but it is still relevant-All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. In my writings, I have had the opportunity to call out certain dishonest intellectuals and I can state without any reservation that this Dotse Kobla is one such individual. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Mayor's Marathon results Jun 22, 2009
1) Edmund Burke, Maryland, 29:05; 2) Jacob Kirk, Anchorage, 30:38; 3) Ryan Davis, 31:00; 4) Ryan Cox, Anchorage, 31:26; 5) Andrew Arnold, Anchorage, 32:54; 6) Peter Walls, Anchorage, 33:18; 7) Aaron Wheatall, Anchorage, 33:35; 8) Ben Wheatall, Anchorage, 35:18; 9) Jack Parke, Anchorage, 35:19; 10) Josh Holland, Anchorage, 35:34; 11) Alex Babos, 36:12; 12) Martin Stage, Anchorage, 36:32; 13) Patrick Lavin, Anchorage, 36:35; 14) Alex Odegaard, Anchorage, 37:46; 15) David Minge, 37:48; 16) Timothy... (Anchorage Daily News)
Wisniewski breaks record in Mayor's Marathon Jun 21, 2009
Maryland runner Edmund Burke, 39, took the men's 5. 6-miler in 29:05, with 16-year-old Jacob Kirk of Anchorage second in 30:38. (Anchorage Daily News)
Neo-Paganists for Pat Buchanan? Jun 16, 2009
For example, Edmund Burke was an outspoken critic of British imperialism. Even though he believed that God was guiding history, he did not pretend that eh knew where history was going, and he certainly did not believe in the inevitability of human progress. (The American Conservative)
Lionel Trilling: A Modern Burke Jun 16, 2009
I have often wondered why Trilling did not employ Edmund Burke as an exponent of the conservative tradition, which he said did not exist in America. It cannot be because Burke was writing about England and the French Revolution. (The American Conservative)
CHANGING LANES: Slave trade hits close to home Jun 16, 2009
Two centuries ago, Edmund Burke asserted, All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. When we see shocking headlines announcing crimes against humanity we want to do things that make this world a better place but can feel overwhelmed at trying to address global tragedies with our simple efforts. (Hingham Journal, MA)
17 comments Jun 3, 2009
The other day I sought a respite from current events by re-reading some of the writings of 18th century British statesman Edmund Burke ... Edmund Burke understood that, no matter what form of government you had, in the end the character of those who wielded the powers of government was crucial. (Human Events Online)
Burke and Obama May 31, 2009
The other day I sought a respite from current events by re-reading some of the writings of 18th century British statesman Edmund Burke. But it was not nearly as big an escape as I had thought it would be. (Townhall.com)
Nadal, Anyone? May 26, 2009
When Editor Jon Meacham isn't doing softball interviews with big names, he's giving stale history lessons, this time on British philosopher Edmund Burke, in case you've never read a conservative newspaper column. Then again, Time does a pretty good job of reminding us why longtime clone Newsweek just revamped itself. (New York Post -- Business)
Viereck Revisited May 25, 2009
It s an evenhanded and elegant treatment with a thematic thread contrasting relatively more authoritarian continental traditions rooted in Joseph de Maistre with the milder Anglo-American conservatism of John Adams and Edmund Burke. Viereck takes pains to treat fairly those philosophies on the Right such as William Graham Sumner s laissez faire with which he disagrees. (The American Conservative)
The Realist Kennan May 25, 2009
In the words of Edmund Burke, whom he much admired, he reprobated no form of government merely upon abstract principles. Kennan did not deny that millions of people lived under less than inspiring regimes, but, he added, so what. (The American Conservative)
The Essential Edmund Burke May 25, 2009
Bearing this resistance to formal treatment in mind, it is perfectly in character that what is widely accepted as the ablest and most influential statement of conservative views Edmund Burke s Reflections on the Revolution in France is not a systematic statement of a position but a polemic reacting to a particular political situation: an unprecedented upheaval in the most illustrious and powerful country in Europe. Embedded therein, in unsystematic fashion, are the tenets of a political... (The American Conservative)
Ghost Over the Conservative Graveyard May 25, 2009
His discovery of an Anglo-American tradition of conservative ideas beginning with the 18th-century British thinker, Edmund Burke, catapulted the 35-year-old Michigan college professor of history from obscurity into national prominence ... Kirk described the moral imagination, a term coined by Edmund Burke, as that power of ethical perception which strides beyond the barriers of private experience and events of the moment ; especially as found in the higher form of this power exercised in poetry... (The American Conservative)
Right Reflections May 19, 2009
A disposition to preserve, wrote Edmund Burke, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman ... David Bromwich is the editor of a selection of Edmund Burke s speeches and letters, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform (Yale University Press). (The American Conservative)
Prep Focus: Pitching lifts Edmund Burke May 19, 2009
Pitching lifts Edmund Burke 051909 - The Augusta Chronicle ... WHAT'S UP: The Edmund Burke baseball team will play in its first state semifinal this week ... Freshman left-hander Brandon Sharpe has won 10 games for Edmund Burke this season. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Obama Offers Security at the Expense of Liberty May 16, 2009
For the policies of the Obama administration are not designed to shelter and nourish what Edmund Burke called the "little platoons." They are designed to subject them to what Tocqueville called "soft despotism," which he identified as the natural tendency and potentially fatal weakness of American democracy. Our would-be soft despots are offering Americans money and the promise of security against economic distress. (Townhall.com)
The Loud bang of motor accidents. May 12, 2009
The soldiers might have been wrong, but all that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing, asserts Edmund Burke. If the soldiers were wrong at all, then lets have someone from the community of human rights activists to give us the right solution to the irresponsibility on our roads. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Abortion vs. Waterboard May 12, 2009
Edmund Burke, the founder of modern conservatism says you understand the age you're living in and you respect reality. You all should be for 'conserving' the environment, be against launching pre-emptive wars, against the wild swings of laissez-faire economics, reckless speculation, for clean energy, or as Patrick McHenry(R) economist from N.C. says, "The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set". (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
How the Republicans Can Come Back May 8, 2009
British statesman Edmund Burke was the movement's founder. A fierce critic of the French Revolution, Burke had contempt for rigid ideologues of all stripes and instead attached conservatism to restraint, custom and convention. (Time.com)
How Right Was Reagan? May 7, 2009
But overall, Reagan preached yet another version of sinless, progressive America that had more in common with Tom Paine and Woodrow Wilson than with Edmund Burke. In a chapter added in 2004, Lukacs attributed the record budget deficits of the 1980s in part to Reagan s populist message that demanded no self-sacrifice or hard choices from the American public. (The American Conservative)
Controversial New Book on The Illuminati Takes Internet By Storm! Is There Truth to the Fiction? May 5, 2009
The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing' - Edmund Burke. Website: To purchase this book online, go to or. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
A mighty fine Tea Party May 4, 2009
Back in the 1700s, Edmund Burke said it so well: "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to take over the world is for enough good men (and women) to do nothing.". Could we have a tea party every year on April 15. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Echols: GOP should embrace conservatism's core principles May 1, 2009
Second, Kirk argued conservatives should adhere to Edmund Burke's mantra that while the individual may be foolish, the species is wise ... I refer here not only to Ronald Reagan, but to other great thinkers and statesmen beyond our lifetime, such as Edmund Burke, T.S. Eliot, Adam Smith and Sir Walter Scott. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Did Chris Matthews Know Specter Was Jumping? Apr 30, 2009
This guy is the opposite of Edmund Burke. He doesn't for the people, he goes with the flow. (Slate)
What Would Burke Do? Apr 28, 2009
Edmund Burke might not like what American conservatism has become. With its devotion to abstract rights, democracy, and perpetual growth, the American Right today looks more like a stepchild of Thomas Paine than an heir to the author of Reflections on the Revolution in France. (The American Conservative)
Forever in Blue Jeans Apr 17, 2009
Edmund Burke -- what he would have thought of the denimization of America can be inferred from his lament that the French Revolution assaulted "the decent drapery of life"; it is a straight line from the fall of the Bastille to the rise of denim -- said: "To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely." Ours would be much more so if supposed grown-ups would heed St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, and St. Barack's inaugural sermon to the Americans, by putting away childish... (Townhall.com)
Prep star turns attention to track career Apr 8, 2009
He needed 16 points against Edmund Burke on Dec. 4 to reach career 2,000. He scored 46. (The Augusta Chronicle)
A scholar looks at the Constitution as philosophy Mar 30, 2009
We thus find ourselves in these pages weighing not what the Constitution itself actually permits or prohibits, but such questions as what Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and Friedrich Hayek, none of them American and none of them constitutional scholars, might propose. If you read this book and are not a law professor, you're likely to wonder why you're subjecting yourself to listening in as Sunstein in essence debates himself over these various means of legal interpretation. (Boston Globe)
The wrong controversy Mar 30, 2009
Freeman makes no secret of his attachment to the conservative ideas of the 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke. He adheres to a realist credo that wants foreign policy to be rooted in an unsentimental calculation of national interests. (Boston Globe)
Bloggers fifth estate? Mar 27, 2009
Years after the French Revolution, the Fourth Estate was apparently first acknowledged by Brit statesman Edmund Burke, who, upon gendering at the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, averred, "Yonder sits the Fourth Estate, and they are more important than them all." So there. Of course, I had mistakenly assumed that the Fourth Estate was an American contrivance, an officially unofficial counterpart to the checks and balances of our executive, judicial and legislative branches of government. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Prep: Undefeated teams to face off Mar 17, 2009
Buford, which beat the Laney girls by 26 points, mauled Model 66-35 in the Class AA final for its first championship under coach Gene Durden, an Edmund Burke Academy graduate. ALL-STATE TEAMS: The state's sportswriters association will release its all-state basketball teams by the middle of next week. (The Augusta Chronicle)
