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conservatism

[kuhn-sur-vuh-tiz-uhm] / kənˈsɜr vəˌtɪz əm /


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But when the chief executive of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy group with a $130 million annual budget, addressed the National Conservatism conference in September, she gave a dark warning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Conservatism in the political sense arose in the modern world as a direct reaction to the French Revolution and, more indirectly, as a response to the Enlightenment.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

This was the question Schmitt posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

This year’s NatCon, organized by the conservative U.S. think tank the Edmund Burke Foundation, was held under the banner of “National Conservatism, Preserving the Nation-State in Europe.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2024

The general effect of the rise of this class was to strengthen Liberalism, not so much by a direct assault upon Toryism as by overbearing Conservatism.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon




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