New Books Network Podcast Episodes featuring Edmund Burke

Richard Bourke, “Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke” (Princeton UP, 2015)

New Books Network - September 30, 2016 18:31 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought in the School of History at Queen Mary University of London, began developing his history of Edmund Burke’s political thought in 1991. Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke (Princeton University Press, 2015) uses Bu...

Yuval Levin, “The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left” (Basic Books, 2013)

New Books Network - January 04, 2014 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
If you went to college in the United States and took a Western Civ class, you’ve probably read at least a bit of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) and Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man (1791). The two are so often paired in history and political science classes that they ar...

Drew Maciag, “Edmund Burke in America: The Contested Career of the Father of Modern Conservatism” (Cornell UP, 2013)

New Books Network - June 28, 2013 13:39 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Drew Maciag, author of Edmund Burke in America: The Contested Career of the Father of Modern Conservatism (Cornell University Press, 2013) spoke with Ray Haberski about the intellectual challenges Burke raised in a time of democratic revolutions and the legacy he left for thinkers who attempted t...