Varieties of Conservatism in America (Hoover Institution Press Publication) - Softcover

Berkowitz, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817945725 ISBN 13: 9780817945725

Publisher: Hoover Institution Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book examines the questions that divide conservatives today and reveals the variety of answers put forward by classical conservatives, libertarians, and neoconservatives. The contributors—drawn from varied professional backgrounds—each bring a distinctive voice to bear, reinforcing the book's basic notion that conservatism in America represents a family of opinions and ideas rather than a rigid doctrine or set creed.

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Answers to the questions that divide conservatives in America today

Although conservatives may all look alike to their critics, they disagree among themselves about what it means to be a conservative and who is entitled to bear the name. This book examines the questions that divide conservatives today and presents the variety of answers put forward by classical conservatives, libertarians, and neoconservatives.

The contributors—drawn from varied professional backgrounds—each bring a distinctive voice to bear, illustrating the book’s overarching argument that conservatism in America represents a family of opinions and ideas rather than a rigid doctrine or settled creed. At the same time, the contributors clarify the moral underpinnings of the varieties of American conservatism and shed light on the political implications of each variety.

The essays in this volume demonstrate that the debate among conservatives about which principles and practices are most urgently in need of protection is also a debate with and within that larger liberalism that undergirds the American constitutional order. The essays suggest as well that this larger liberalism, with its bedrock devotion to individual liberty and equality before the law, serves as the common ground on which the contending camps within conservatism—and indeed conservatives in their contentions with progressives—can come together, debate civilly, and discover ways to advance the public good.

Peter Berkowitz teaches at George Mason University School of Law and is a fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of two books, and the editor of several, including the companion to this volume, Varieties of Progressivism in America (Hoover Institution Press, 2004).

Contributors: Randy E. Barnett, Joseph Bottum, Richard A. Epstein, Jacob Heilbrunn, Mark C. Henrie, Tod Lindberg

About the Author

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he chairs the Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law. He was cofounder and director of the Israel Program on Constitutional Government, has served as a senior consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics, and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0817945725
• ISBN 13: 9780817945725
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166