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Balloon Juice » 2009 » October 2009

Some like Andrew Sullivan have explicitly distanced themselves from it and identified as Burkean conservatives (a lonely tribe at the moment, but possibly the only long-term alternative to extinction for the Republican party).

The New Authoritarians 2008

Instead, he argues that Souter should be considered a "Burkean" conservative

British Blogs 2009

Cameron is giving up on the Burkean tradition and carving up Britain like a demented socialist planner scoring lines on a map, not just because he may win more seats but because "reform" will also make the Commons easier for the executive to control.

We need electoral reform, not this Liberal fudge Nick Cohen 2010

But I have thought quite a bit about what sort of approach I identify with, and anyhow, Burkean Toryism, with a touch of classical liberalism, turned out to be my thing.

Matthew Yglesias » The Wrath of Rush 2009

The Burkean apothegm mentioned earlier in the article is very fitting here.

The Dangers of Architectural Positivism 2009

The prime minister is not helped by the flawed thinking of his main Big Society advisers, the sweetly idealistic Lord Nat Wei, who seems to dream of the kind of transformation of human nature that Conservatives in the Burkean tradition are trained to attack on sight, and "Red Tory" author Phillip Blond, who seems to hate capitalism even more than he hates government.

How Britain Can Lead the World Matthew Bishop 2011

This is only conservative in the Burkean sense, and all it does is guarantee that conservatives will lose slowly.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement 2010