Truth, Virtue and Liberty: Conservatism’s Pricean Turn

From the conclusion: "To argue, then, that contemporary conservatism now more closely resembles Price’s political thought than it does Burke’s, is to argue, in effect, that conservatism has become more libertarian, or, at least, that conservatives have become more libertarian in their political outlook. The way to explain this development is by context. Libertarians have always been dissenters. Their worldview has always been a minority and antiestablishment perspective. Moreover, they have consistently been the defenders of the right to dissent, in all its forms. What has changed is that conservatives have gone from being defenders of established institutions and cultural mores to dissenters from established institutions and critics of cultural mores, a position long occupied by libertarians on the righthand side of the (conventional) political spectrum." {p. 262}

Jonathan Cole is an academic who works in political theology: the intersection of religion and politics. He is also host of "The Political Animals Podcast" in which he explores the political ideas of the Right through intellectual biography.

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