Jonah , I agree completely (catching up on a busy day on the Corner). There has been a peculiar strand of commentary on Obama (from David Brooks, Jon Meacham, and a few others) describing the president as a “Burkean,” apparently for his understanding of, as that New Republic piece put it, “complexity and the organic nature of change.” I think this is downright bizarre. A certain kind of progressivism and a certain kind of conservatism have long both claimed…

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RE: Obama…Burkean — By: Yuval Levin