The Conservative’s Prophetic Role
The conservative, like the prophet, is never popular among the people. It is a lonely road telling a generation they are headed the wrong way.
The conservative, like the prophet, is never popular among the people. It is a lonely road telling a generation they are headed the wrong way.
Libertarians, ironically, tend to feed modern secularism. Libertarianism fails to balance the individual and the collective.
The concept of “freedom” to many ostensible Conservatives today has nothing to do with virtue or the wisdom of tradition, but everything to do with soft, self-perpetuating libertinism.
Dabney’s prophetic voice has rung true in many areas, perhaps most of all in education and the secularization of American schools.
Edmund Burke, the first conservative, was a practical politician and supremely conservative thinker, and as such he viewed society as a partnership between the living and the dead.
To be able to distinguish is critical in the war on language. Read here to see the Christian, Marxist, Libertarian, and Conservative Conceptions of Liberty.