A Conservatism Triptych

Let’s tell a story in three parts.

Composed using photos by Felipe Archer, Aneta Foubíková on Unsplash and an unknown distributed pic.

As I was describing a set of essays I was pondering, my spouse told me I was describing a triptych. An interesting notion, I thought; so, I present these three essays as a triptych (a tale in three parts). I present, therefore, what I see as two key weaknesses of Conservatism as practiced (the two outer panels) with an overarching center panel integrating the two…