George Will on the Conservative Sensibility

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🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Pulitzer Prize-winning Conservative columnist George Will answers the fundamental question “what is it that conservatives mean to conserve" and suggests that modern conservatives are losing sight of that purpose. He extolls James Madison’s belief in the importance of natural rights and government’s role in protecting them, and he makes that case against his fellow Princetonian Woodrow Wilson who did the most to unravel the Founders’ vision. George discusses his decision to change his political affiliation from Republican to Independent in 2016, why he still can’t make the leap to the Libertarian Party, and why he believes it would be better to vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in 2020. Order George Will's book The Conservative Sensibility on Amazon, Audible or wherever books are sold. Follow him on Twitter at @GeorgeWill and look for his regular column in the Washington Post. Today's podcast was sponsored by BetterHelp and Ben & Jerry's. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.9	For more than four decades, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and conservative icon George Will has
1:23.8	attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to
1:28.4	America's civic life.
1:30.4	Today, the stakes could hardly be higher.
1:33.4	Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, and of majority rule are
1:39.2	bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America.
1:43.5	Conservatism is under threat, both from progressives and elements inside the Republican party.
1:49.7	America has become an administrative state, while destructive trends have overtaken family
1:54.4	life and higher education.
1:56.4	Semi-autonomous executive agencies wield essentially unaccountable power.
2:01.4	Congress has failed in its duty to exercise its legislative powers, and the executive branch
2:07.0	has slipped the Constitution's leash.
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