Lawler: "Edmund Burke and Leo Strauss"

By Peter Lawler here. A taste:

... Burke is an evilthinker because he teaches that constitutions are grown, not made; because he lacks the conviction of the superiority of the philosophic life that should order the hierarchy of ends in the best regime; because he has an indefinite but real understanding of the flourishing of individuality that makes him fatally modern (or Lockean/Humean); because he seems to rank imagination and sentiment higher than reason in understanding beauty and such; and because he facilitated the eradication of natural right by history or historicism. 

But, practically speaking, Burke was always right–about America, Ireland, India, and the French Revolution etc. ...