Add to ORKGAmerican sociologist Robert Nisbet once described conservatives and libertarians as “uneasy cousins.” The description is apt. While sharing a family resemblance and many of the same political rivals, conservatism and libertarianism are fundamentally at odds. This paper explains why this is so from the conservative perspective. It surveys the starting points and major themes of conservatism and libertarianism. It identifies what conservatives and libertarians agree about. It concludes by showing what conservatives have against libertarianism
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Book Chapter Richard W. Garnett, The Worms and the Octopus: Religious Freedom, Pluralism, and Conser...
Libertarianism is sometimes portrayed as radical and even extreme. In this Afterword to a symposium ...
American sociologist Robert Nisbet once described conservatives and libertarians as “uneasy cousins....
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Libertarians no longer argue, as they once did in the 1970s, about whether libertarianism must be gr...
Book Chapter Richard W. Garnett, The Worms and the Octopus: Religious Freedom, Pluralism, and Conser...
Libertarianism is sometimes portrayed as radical and even extreme. In this Afterword to a symposium ...
American sociologist Robert Nisbet once described conservatives and libertarians as “uneasy cousins....
A brief primer contrasting conservativism from progressivism, and outlining the major schools of con...
In this paper, I try to pin down the essence of conservative political theory. I then show that no-...
Conservatism is a political ideology which problematizes change, resists modernity and values stabil...
This article responds to O’Hara’s ‘What Conservatives Value’. It establishes what is at stake in our...
This paper examines the conservative point of view about distributive justice. The first section ex...
This essay asks whether there is an underlying philosophy of American and Australian conservatism: I...
Many conservatives endorse a defence of closed borders grounded in basic liberal rights such as the ...
This article intervenes in the debate about the nature of conservatism. Some contributors to this de...
Is there a political philosophy of conservatism? A history of the phenomenon written along sceptical...
Libertarians no longer argue, as they once did in the 1970s, about whether libertarianism must be gr...
Book Chapter Richard W. Garnett, The Worms and the Octopus: Religious Freedom, Pluralism, and Conser...
Libertarianism is sometimes portrayed as radical and even extreme. In this Afterword to a symposium ...