Jennifer Burns is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia.
"Liberalism and the Conservative Imagination," in Liberalism for a New Century
In this essay, I look at mid-century debates about the meaning of the word “conservative.” More than mere semantics, the argument concerned what it meant to be conservative, and who would determine the parameters of conservative identity. In the end, conservatism became closely identified with market capitalism rather than with intellectual traditions that emphasized the organic, interconnected nature of society.
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