F.H. Buckley on Progressive Conservatism, Aristocracy, and Restoring the American Dream

Conservative Conversations with ISI

In this episode:

• Frank H. Buckley, the Foundation Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School, discusses his newly published book, Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Party
• How left-wing progressive policies on immigration, education, and burdensome regulations make America more immobile and aristocratic, and how progressive conservatives can solve this problem
• how progressive conservatism repudiates recent conservative history, and hearkens back to older parts of the American conservative tradition, such as Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower

Texts Mentioned:

• Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America’s Natural Governing Party by F.H. Buckley
• “The Significance of the Frontier in American History" by Frederick Jackson Turner
• The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater

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