Neo-conservatism v. Classical Conservatism by Jack Kerwick

An examination of the formal assumptions behind each school of conservate thought reveals that they are logically incompatible with one another.

For all of the references to it, both positive and (as is more often than not the case) negative, there have been relatively few attempts at anything like a serious definition of neo-conservatism. I would like to rectify this situation by submitting my own account of this enigmatic phenomenon. In so doing, I will show how it differs from what I will call, for lack of a better term, “classical conservatism,” a tradition of thought that traces its roots to Edmund Burke.

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