Word: burkean
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...Bolsheviks were to have two decades later, tried to revolutionize the state. According to Pipes, police repression was inevitable from the moment the radicals tried to extricate themselves from the entire web at once. "If you fight for everything, you get nothing," Pipes said recently. "I subscribe to the Burkean notion of fighting for specific rights and privileges. This creates an element of liberty...
...writers on the other side, however, is not always easy. Recently Shakespeare fretted: "Why can't we get a good conservative like Richard Kerr to do some writing for us?" Assistants searched diligently, but could find no Richard Kerr; Shakespeare had meant Conservative Author Russell Kirk, the neo-Burkean scholiast...