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Conservative godfather Russell Kirk (1918–1994) wrote lengthy philosophical treatises on “the six canons of conservative thought” and “ten conservative principles.” Throughout his writings on conservatism he praised natural law, order, virtue, restraint, custom, convention, continuity, tradition, prudence, permanent things, an enduring moral order, property, and voluntary community, while he disdained hasty innovation, collectivism, uniformity, egalitarianism, utilitarianism, and those who would “reconstruct society upon abstract designs.”
The conservative mantra
Present-day conservatives take a much different and simpler approach than that of Kirk. It has been said by numerous people in a variety of ways that if you repeat something loudly enough and often enough, people will eventually come to believe it, whether it is true or not. That is certainly the case of conservatives in the Internet Age. Although I am a libertarian, I am on the email list of many conservative organizations. Not only do I want to keep up with what they are doing, they many times publish valuable studies ...
If you miss our upcoming June 3 conference “The National Security State and JFK,” my hunch is that you’re later going to say, “Jacob, I sure wish I had attended that conference because I heard that it was absolutely fantastic!” For the past three years, I have dreamed of putting together this conference, and it is now about to become a reality. It’s being held at the Dulles Marriott, which is located about 3 minutes from Dulles Airport in northern Virginia. Price: $99, including coffee and tea, lunch, an appetizer break, and a speaker line-up that will absolutely blow your socks off.
This conference will focus on the origins, policies, and practices of the national security state, the oversized role that it is plays in America’s federal governmental structure, and the adverse consequences that have flowed from the decision after World War II to convert America from a constitutional republic to a national-security state. Things like regime-change operations, assassinations, ...