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Persons who idolize Edmund Burke as the patron saint of conservatism (Column Right, by James Pinkerton, July 3) remind me of those who refuse to admit that the 2nd Amendment is a complete sentence.
July 9, 1997
Books
1989 marks the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.
March 12, 1989
Twenty years ago Conor Cruise O’Brien tried to write a conventional chronological biography of Edmund Burke, the 18th-Century writer and statesman, and found he couldn’t.
Nov. 22, 1992
Opinion
Free-speech issues are rooted in the argument about what a free society actually is.
Dec. 23, 2013
“Something they must destroy, or they seem to themselves to exist for no purpose.”
July 4, 1989
Entertainment & Arts
Review: Michelle Muldrow’s landscapes of consumerism
May 31, 2012
‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’ by Christopher Caldwell
Aug. 19, 2009
California
Chafing under rising fuel prices and growing waits to pick up cargo at local port terminals, as many as 300 waterfront truckers are expected at a rally today in Long Beach, calling for higher wages and more coordination with terminal operators, among other demands.
Sept. 26, 2000
Edmund Burke, the greatest British political writer of the 18th century, was a principled opponent of wars and revolutions.
June 24, 2004
In Europe, the author argues, the clash between Western civilization and the Muslim world has already been lost -- in the latter’s favor.