Tyranny of Liberalism by James Kalb

Author:James Kalb
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497644335
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ORD)

CONSERVATISM IN AMERICA

The fundamental weakness of simple conservatism has deeply affected American political life, since it has been difficult for any more explicit and substantive form of attachment to tradition to maintain itself among us. America began as an overseas extension of England, and thus as part of European and Christian civilization. National independence, followed by enormous territorial, economic, and demographic growth in new lands far from Europe, largely obscured the original sources of American order and made it seem something novel and self-generated. As a consequence, our country today has little attachment to blood and soil, and no memory of an ancien régime of throne, altar, and sword. The inherited and unspoken habits and attachments that are the basis of our conservatism often have an uneasy relationship to national symbols that liberals can claim more easily than conservatives, such as the Revolution, the Founding, the Statue of Liberty, and the building of a new country by settlers and immigrants from all over the world.

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