Further Reflections on the French Revolution

The Rights of Man was written as a direct response to Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, but the ideas contained in it are also in debate with Burke’s other revolutionary writings contained here. Paine defended the early phases of the Revolution as a movement for liberty against…

This Liberty Fund collection contains many of Burke’s most famous writings, including Reflections on the Revolution in France, his two most well-known speeches on the American colonies and Revolution, and his searing Letters on a Regicide Peace, written as Britain considered making peace with…

One of Burke’s earliest works, the Vindication is a satirical essay in the manner of Bolingbroke putting the latter’s religious opinions to work undermining the foundations of social order. Though it was meant primarily to undermine the arguments of natural religion, the satirical political…

Greg Weiner discusses his book Old Whigs with Richard Reinsch on Liberty Law Talk. The title of Weiner’s book is a reference to Burke’s “Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs,” contained in this volume, and uses Burke as an example of a statesman guided by a particular understanding of prudence.

It remains an open question as to how much Burke was animated by instinctive political skepticism and by natural law. Gregg makes the case for Burke as a natural law thinker.