Conservative Encyclopedia
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Natural Law
Conservatives lean toward positive law in politics and nature in discussing its roots.
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Free Trade
From 2006: the exchange of goods shapes not just people’s pocketbooks but their way of life.
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Technology
Can’t live with it; can’t live without it.
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Alexander Hamilton
He believed free enterprise enlarges the scope of human freedom.
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Irving Babbitt
A major voice of classic conservatism in the Burkean tradition.
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Eric Voegelin
He fought for historical understanding over ideological indoctrination.
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Puritanism
Four centuries later, the “city on a hill” is still a cause for thanksgiving.
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Henry Adams
A brilliant American on a quest for meaning.
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Richard V. Allen (1936–2024)
The presidential advisor and longtime friend of ISI died Saturday.
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Fascism
Leftists use it as a slur against the right. But its real meaning is very different.
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