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Who’s Right?

From the March 2014 Print Edition

The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Leftby yuval levin basic, 296 pages, $27.99 Edmund Burke, a native Dubliner from a religiously mixed marriage, wanted to become a public intellectual, and as part of Samuel ­Johnson’s circle, he came to think of . . . . Continue Reading »