Showing posts with label The Duties of a Free Citizen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Duties of a Free Citizen. Show all posts

The Duties of a Free Citizen

By Kevin Gutzman




This is the third contribution to ISI’s symposium, Conservatism: What’s Wrong with It and How Can We Make It Right?
If Russell Kirk was right in saying that conservatism is a disposition, not a program, then one should not presume to lecture one’s fellows on the way in which it ought to head.  I offer the following thoughts, then, not as a program, but as one conservative scholar’s considered stance concerning some of the most important issues of our time.