Given recent events, it is ironic that conservatism was born in opposition to mobs. And not just any mobs: French ones. The British philosopher Edmund Burke swerved to the right in October of 1789, ...

I am pleased to see that my friend Jeff Hart has not misplaced his ability to spark debate. Like many others, I was surprised by some of Jeff’s comments, both in his Wall Street Journal piece several ...

In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke took aim at Lord George Gordon, who had led the anti-Catholic riots that bore his name. By the time of the Reflections, Gordon resided in ...

Since 1934 ELH has consistently published superior studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The importance of historical continuity in the ...

This article highlights Edmund Burke's basic purposes in discussing the meaning and significance of the English Revolution of 1688 in his classic text Reflections on the Revolution in France. Previous ...

Had it not been for the revolution in France, Edmund Burke would likely have been remembered, a bit vaguely, as an 18th-century philosopher-statesman of extravagant rhetorical gifts but frustratingly ...

The tensions of a dawning democratic era are dissected in this incisive dual biography of two celebrated 18th-century British statesmen. Journalist Grant (Bagehot) recaps the careers of Burke, a sober ...