Sullivan clarifies his point a bit (or corrects my misunderstanding of it). I do think, though, that the kind of reform conservatism Burke describes is what the present-day reform conservatives he listed in his original post have in mind, more or less, and that while it’s surely a “problematic governing philosophy” (like all others), it also has the potential to be a plausible and practical one.

(Meanwhile, Chris Roach offers another perspective on Burke–not quite mine, but an informed and itneresting one–here)