Who’s Afraid of Edmund Burke?

WHITTAKER CHAMBERS in 1954 was writing an article on the “Conservative Position” for Fortune Magazine. In a letter to Duncan Norton- Taylor, the editor of Fortune, recently published in Cold Friday, Chambers comments on his difficulties with the intractable subject of the conservative position, and he concludes that “it is very difficult to excite people about what is everlasting.”

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