Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: Lukacs the Tory Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/lukacs_the_tory#28455 Post contents: Great article. I suppose, what counts as "Conservative" varies from country to country. As Puritan-Whig Rebels, it follows that the Tory-Leaning Whig, Edmund Burke, has become the archetypal American Conservative. Indeed, given the history of our formation, we could hardly look to a Bolingbroke, who was a Monarchist and a Churchman (favoring the established Church of England) -- essential requirements of an historically authentic 17-18th Century English Tory. In short, one man's Tory is another's Whig. Because of his monarchist sympathies, Lukacs may be just further to the right of the historical Anglo-American spectrum than Buchanan, who is a populist republican, even Lukacs cannot score full points due to his Catholicism and his Russophobia. Sent at: 2009 01 08