{"id":2091,"date":"2007-03-05T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T17:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/conservatism-as-a-respectable-social-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T17:23:53","slug":"conservatism-as-a-respectable-social-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/conservatism-as-a-respectable-social-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"conservatism as a respectable social philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E. J. Dionne Jr. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/01\/AR2007030101325.html\">A Historian Who Saw Beyond the Past<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No intellectual phenomenon has been more surprising in recent years than the revival in the United States of conservatism as a respectable social philosophy,&#8221; the distinguished commentator wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For decades, liberalism seemed to have everything its way,&#8221; but &#8220;fashionable intellectual circles now dismiss liberalism as naive, ritualistic, sentimental, shallow. <strong class=\"highlight\">With a whoop and a roar, a number of conservative prophets have materialized out of the wilderness, exhuming conservatism, revisiting it, revitalizing it, preaching it.<\/strong> . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thus wrote that lion of American liberalism, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., <em class=\"highlight\">in 1955<\/em>, long before the Reagan and Gingrich revolutions. Here was a historian whose understanding of the past afforded him remarkable perspective on the future. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Schlesinger worried about &#8220;the classical condition of private opulence and public squalor.&#8221; He said of the 1950s: &#8220;We have chosen in this decade to invest not in people but in things. We have chosen to allocate our resources to undertakings which bring short-run profits to individuals rather than to those which bring long-run profits to the nation.&#8221; The new public priorities, Schlesinger said, should include schools, medical care and &#8220;energy development.&#8221; Meet the old agenda; same as the new agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E. J. Dionne Jr. &#8211; A Historian Who Saw Beyond the Past &#8220;No intellectual phenomenon has been more surprising in recent years than the revival in the United States of conservatism as a respectable social philosophy,&#8221; the distinguished commentator wrote. &#8220;For decades, liberalism seemed to have everything its way,&#8221; but &#8220;fashionable intellectual circles now dismiss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/conservatism-as-a-respectable-social-philosophy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">conservatism as a respectable social philosophy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}