The conservative sensibility

Summary: "A reflection on American conservatism, examining how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition--one that now finds itself under threat, both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780316480932 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xxxvii, 600 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The founders' epistemological assertion: they knew what can be known -- The progressives' revision: an emancipation (from natural rights) proclamation -- Progressivism's institutional consequences: the presidency triumphant, the administrative state rampant, Congress dormant -- The judicial supervision of democracy: difficulties with the "counter-majoritarian difficulty" -- Political economy: rescuing the great enrichment from the fatal conceit -- Culture and opportunity: the scissors that shredded old convictions -- The aims of education: talents for praising and for pessimism -- Going abroad: a creedal nation in a world on probation -- Welcoming whirl: conservatism without theism -- Borne back: the quest for a useable past.