Some Reflections on Burke's Reflections
Bradley Lecture by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Monday, October 06, 2008 | 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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About This Event

Edmund Burke is identified today as a conservative thinker--indeed, one of the greatest conservative thinkers--by his admirers. But his conservatism was more complicated and provocative than even conservatives appreciate. His Reflections on the Revolution in France, a searing indictment of the Revolution, brilliantly forecast the Reign of Terror that was Listen to Audio


Download Audio as MP3 to emerge three years later. Yet, he was also a passionate defender of the American Revolution and of the republic it produced. Both were inspired by a political wisdom that defies party labels and that is as timely today as it was more than two centuries ago.

Gertrude Himmelfarb is professor emeritus of history at the Graduate School of the City University of New York and a member of AEI’s Council of Academic Advisers. Her most recent book is The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling (Ivan R. Dee, 2006).

Agenda
5:15 p.m.
Registration
5:30
Introduction:
Christopher DeMuth, AEI
Address:
Gertrude Himmelfarb, City University of New York
7:00
Adjournment and Wine and Cheese Reception
Event Materials
Some Reflections on Burke's Reflections
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