Conservative Minds

Wrapping up season 5, we summarize and compare the readings from episodes 70 though 85.

Hazllitt's 1969 book examines inflation, price controls, and all of the downsides of a managed economy in a strong defense of free-market capitalism.

Scruton argues that conservatism starts from a sentiment that good things are easily destroyed but not easily created. We have collectively inherited good things that we must strive to keep. Further, democray needs boundaries to flourish. A shared identity - territory, culture, language - is a prerequisite for the politics of compromise.