For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the roots of our p...(展开全部)

For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the roots of our p...(展开全部)

理查德·伯克是政治思想史教授，剑桥大学国王学院的研究员。2012年成为伦敦大学玛丽女王学院历史学院的教授，随后成为该校政治思想史研究中心的联合院长。2018年，他当选为剑桥大学政治思想史学院的主任以及英国社会科学院院士。另著有《爱尔兰的和平:思想的战争(Peace inlreland The War of ldeas），以及与人合编的《政治判断》(PoliticaJudgement）。

Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain, pressed for constitutional change in Ireland, and became a ce...(展开全部)

Edmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain, pressed for constitutional change in Ireland, and became a ce...(展开全部)

理查德·伯克是政治思想史教授，剑桥大学国王学院的研究员。2012年成为伦敦大学玛丽女王学院历史学院的教授，随后成为该校政治思想史研究中心的联合院长。2018年，他当选为剑桥大学政治思想史学院的主任以及英国社会科学院院士。另著有《爱尔兰的和平:思想的战争(Peace inlreland The War of ldeas），以及与人合编的《政治判断》(PoliticaJudgement）。

Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and a lifelong campaigner against arbitrary power. Revered by great Americans including Presidents Theodore Roosevelt an...(展开全部)

Edmund Burke is both the greatest and the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and a lifelong campaigner against arbitrary power. Revered by great Americans including Presidents Theodore Roosevelt an...(展开全部)

A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America’s political soul through the lives of six political figures—from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens—who abandoned the left and joined the right. In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political figures whose journeys away from the left reshaped the contours of American politics in the twe...(展开全部)