The Conscience of a Conservative was a book written by L. Brent Bozell in 1960, but attributed solely to Barry Goldwater L. Brent Bozell III is the founder and president of the Media Research Center and president of the Parents Television Council. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Barry Goldwater Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a United States politician and a founding figure in the modern conservative movement in the USA. Goldwater personified the shift in balance in American culture from the Northeast to the West. ...
Conservative," argued in his 1960Conscience of a Conservative that conservatives split on the issue of civil rights due to some conservatives advocating ends (integration, even in the face of what they saw as unconstitutional Federal involvement) and some advocating means (constitutionality above all else, even in the face of segregation).
Conservatives, out of their respect for traditional, established institutions, tend to strongly identify with nationalist movements, existing governments, and its defenders: police, the military, and national poets, authors, and artists.
The archetypal free-market conservative administrations of the late 20th century -- the Margaret Thatcher government in the UK and the Ronald Reagan government in the U.S. -- both held the unfettered operation of the market to be the cornerstone of contemporary modern conservatism (this philosophy is sometimes called neoliberalism).
The Conscience of a Conservative was an original work of politics and philosophy, a vision of the nation and the world as it should be, not a compromise with the world as it was.
The Conservative is the first to understand that the practice of freedom requires the establishment of order: it is impossible for one man to be free if another is able to deny him the exercise of his freedom.
Conservatives are often charged, and in a sense rightly so, with having an overly mechanistic view of the Constitution: "It is America’s enabling document; we are American citizens; therefore," the Conservatives’ theme runs, "we are morally and legally obliged to comply with the document." All true.
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