Review of Paul Gottfried’s “Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America,” Part 2
Part 1. 2. The “Lockean Founding” of the United States Gottfried is apparently attracted to the anti-rationalist Burkean tradition of conservatism, which in effect claims that history is smarter than reason, therefore, we should take our guidance from historically evolved institutions and conventions rather than rational constructs. This form of conservatism is, of course, dismissed […]