The Conservative Sensibility. George Will. New York: Hachette Books, 2019. “We cannot escape the challenge of living by the exacting principles of our Founding, so we should beat on, boats against many modern currents, borne back, ceaselessly towards a still-useable past.”[1] So ends George Will’s magnum opus, The Conservative…
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