What Russell Kirk thinks about innovation

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Political theorist (1918 to 1994) whose The Conservative Mind (1953) traced an Anglo-American conservative tradition from Burke and set out its canons, helping found postwar American conservatism.

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1 dated position, c. 1953, in their own words. Our reading of what Russell Kirk has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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   Our readingChange is not reform; innovation is more often a conflagration than a torch of progress

   Their wordsRecognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

   ↗The Conservative Mind (Henry Regnery, 1953)archive.org All 4 from this book