Essays on Conservatism

After the conclusion of World War II, the United States began aiding the devastated countries of Western Europe; jump-starting their economies and maintaining the security of their governments. However, back home, certain political groups began to consider the future of our own country. The Conservative Coalition was one of these groups. This movement was founded…

The post-Thatcherite New Right ideology evolved from a combination of elements of neo-Liberal and neo-Conservative ideologies, and although these are occasionally contradictory in nature, they set the New Right apart from traditional Conservatism. The neo-liberal principles prevalent in the ideology of the New Right includes a laissez-faire view of welfare, strong support for individualism and…

To what extent does the affluence of the 1950s account for the Conservative election victories of 1955 and 1959? Hannah van Teutem. The affluence of Britain in the 1950s was a large reason as to why the Conservative Party gained victory in both the 1955 and 1959 election. Nevertheless, there were other factors which also…

A progressive approach in one word can be defined as to “reform”. A person who is progressive welcomes change, innovations and challenges the norms that exist in the society. A progressive person challenges the status quo and believes that in order to progress with the changing times, older beliefs that hold the society back from…

The paper critically analyzes the relevance of Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story, a literary work which envisions the fall of America following an economic apocalypse, to the situation of the present U.S. society. The author sets the background in a dystopian society. America becomes a country where material worth and youthfulness are what…

When one thinks of liberals and conservatives it tends to be a comparison of entirely different views concerning every issue. Conservative thinking is regularly associated with the Republican Party while liberal thinking is regularly associated with the Democratic Party. Two such figures that come to mind whose views tend to put them on opposite sides…

            Many of the most well respected conservative thinkers in history have held the opinion that conservatism itself is not an ideology. Instead, these people feel that conservatism is a passion and further, a way of life. To people like Michael Oakeshott, government is not intended to push beyond its boundaries or to act as…

There are two inter-related spheres, which this paper will explore. The first one asks what the relative appeal of Neo-conservatism was in Britain and Germany. The second determines the extent to which Neo-conservative policies were successfully implemented in the two respective countries. The perspectives chosen here try to explain Neo-conservatism with theories of social and…

Can’t We All Just Get Along? Liberal vs. Conservative Growing up in a home that could be characterized as a political battlefield was traumatic. I spent the first decade of my life living peacefully with two left- winged hippie parents. My mother had hair like Rapunzel and my dad worked as a jazz musician. Life…

Today meaning of the conservatism has been totally changed and is only taken as resistance to change. The American and European ‘conservative’ values and experiences have been intrinsically different in every context. It is in this way dubious and perhaps difficult to fit into a common political framework various European traditionalists, who guarded aristocracy, social…