What are neo-conservatives reading these days? I wouldn’t know. Probably not books by Edmund Burke or Gabriel Kolko. Burke may be considered the father of modern conservatism, but his outlook is much too realistic for neocons in love with foreign policy adventurism. “Men,” wrote Edmund Burke in 1790, “have been sometimes led by degrees, sometimes hurried, into things of which, if they could have seen the whole together, they never would have permitted the most remote approach.” A Burkean imagination tends to make people careful. Few individuals would have enlisted or supported their leaders, had the horrors of the First … Continue reading Wars Change History