Irving Kristol's thought demonstrates through his study of the pornography problem that a democratic State is forced to intervene in the economy, yet without failing to adhere to the assumptions of free market economics.
The poet and historian Peter Viereck defined Conservatism as the system for managing change wisely, rather than undergoing it, giving as examples the difference between the Habsburg Empire - condemned to sclerosis by the Reaction - and the British Empire, which managed to evolve in a national and representative sense, becoming the hegemonic power between the 19th and 20th centuries
Biblical interpretation and Christian morality played an essential role in combating the practice of slavery, contributing decisively to defining the abolitionist movement and playing a key role in the political decisions that led to the progressive abolition of the practice.
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