Essays on Conservatism

Conservatism as a political ideology expresses the views of people who place tradition, order, social stability and the preservation of key institutions, such as religion, property rights, hierarchy and authority as their top priorities. Conservatives tend to oppose radical reforms in society and they strictly…

There are two inter-related spheres, which this paper will explore. The first one asks what the relative appeal of Neo-conservatism was in Britain and Germany. The second determines the extent to which Neo-conservative policies were successfully implemented in the two respective countries. The perspectives chosen…

People always say that “No one who has a heart can resist being a liberal, and no one who has a brain can avoid being a conservative.” Whatever side we take will greatly determine how we look at life and how we live our lives….

Many people argue that the conservative movement started with an article in the National Review on November 19, 1955. The name of the article was the “Publisher’s Statement”, written by William F. Buckley Jr., the magazine’s editor-publisher. At the age of 30, Buckley declared, “let’s…

“A specter is haunting American Liberalism, the specter of conservative revival” – Newspaper Editor M. Staunton Evans, 1960 To begin his infamous study on the relationships between crowds and power, Elias Canetti writes, “There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the…

Should the 1920s really by described as the “Roaring Twenties” or an age of primitivism and conservatism?” The Roaring Twenties was a decade of drastic changes in social norms within society, and time period in which the U.S. economy was very strong, however, the government…

Americans in the United States believe that we are entitled to freedom, low-poverty, less-crime, and overall prosperity, yet, how do we reach these very important aspects of humanity? The answers to achieve these qualities of one nation are nebulous. In fact, some of the most…