Three Versions of Conservatism

Reductionistic Framework Alert! Since “conservatism” has had such bizarre associations in the United States for a long time now, I thought I’d give brief accounts of the three breeds that I most often think of ...

Hermann Broch: Geist und Zeitgeist

This essay was written in 1934: Broch is in Austria and Germany, the world is falling apart around him, and he places the blame on positivism? (He means it in the secularist sense, and he ...

Hegel’s Conservatism (and McGoohan’s Too)

Again on the subject of Hegel’s conservatism. I’m not really trying to convince anyone here, only to provide a verbal formulation for those who already suspect deep in their hearts that something about Hegel is ...

The Basic Conservatism of Hegel

The final message of Hegelianism, therefore, is not the opposition between Reason and an unreasonable world, but contemplation of the world as a priori reasonable. We do not know what parts of the existing world ...

Ecumenicality

A Note on Peter Cook

Thomas Frank: What’s the Matter with Kansas?