Whither Intellectual Conservatism?
Written by Hadley Bennett, Posted in Uncategorized
I’ve sat in a dark room and asked myself this question many times: where are the intellectual conservatives—and in particular, where are the conservative political philosophers? The answer for the latter is that they simply don’t exist. Is there a single one? When referencing the 20th century, why does T.S. Elliot count as a serious conservative thinker? He was a poet—a wonderful poet, but still a poet. C. S. Lewis was an apologist and had very little to say about meta-politics, except for some great remarks in the Abolition of Man that with minimal effort could be ported over to […]
