Secular Conservatism
Conservative branch that defends order, tradition, and institutions without grounding them in religion, supporting cultural values and social stability with secular, historical, and pragmatic arguments.
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Conservative branch that defends order, tradition, and institutions without grounding them in religion, supporting cultural values and social stability with secular, historical, and pragmatic arguments.
EDITORIAL SUMMARY
I want a society that preserves tradition and institutions through secular, historical arguments, without appealing to religion for it.
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This position is 26.2 points from the median of the 257 ideology profiles in this collection.
This is the largest distance from this collection’s median across the twelve axes. The collection is not a survey of public opinion.
This position is 2.1 points from this collection’s median.
This is the smallest median distance across the twelve axes; it does not establish a historical or political consensus.
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An American diplomat, Kissinger was a master of realpolitik, shaping US foreign policy in the Cold War with détente, the opening to China, and controversial interventions in the name of the national interest.
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Related Doctrines
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Most compatible among the 257 schools
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