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The Conservative Element in American liberalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Stephen J. Tonsor
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Conservatives and liberals have been living together these past two centuries in the intellectual house which Edmund Burke built. It ought to give conservatives pause that Burke's most intelligent admirer in recent times was Harold Laski. Indeed, Laski thinking to hand Burke the ultimate encomium called him the father of the welfare state. One suspects in reading Laski on the subject of Burke that Laski imagines himself to be what Burke might have become had he had the insights of Marx and the advantages of a Fabian education available to him.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , October 1973 , pp. 489 - 500
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1973

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