The first volume of David Bromwich’s projected two-volume work The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke⁠[1] has recently appeared; it is very timely. For in the last few decades conservatives and neoconservatives, culling their evidence largely from Burke’s 1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France, have claimed the great Whig as one of their own, the […]

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