The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

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For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. InThe Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the lads who very best represented each and every side of that debate at its outset: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the roots of our political order, Levin shows that American partisanship originated within the debates over the French Revolution, fueled by the fiery rhetoric of these ideological titans.

Levin masterfully shows how Burke’s and Paine’s differing views, a reforming conservatism and a restoring progressivism, continue to shape our current political discourseon issues ranging from abortion to welfare, education, economics, and beyond. Crucial reading for somebody in quest of to have in mind Washington’s steadily acrimonious rifts, The Great Debate offers a profound examination of what conservatism, liberalism, and the debate between them in point of fact amount to.

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