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Seven Myths About Edmund Burke That His Fans and Critics Both Repeat Burke was a Whig, a reformer, a friend of the colonies and of Irish Catholics, and he never wrote the line about good men doing nothing. Seven claims tested. Roger Scruton Made the Love of Home a Serious Political Philosophy Scruton argued that oikophilia, the love of home, is the root of conservatism, and that it answers both the globalist and the angry nationalist. Britain's postwar socialism, from nationalized coal to the Winter of Discontent Britain won the war, nationalized its commanding heights, and by 1976 was borrowing from the IMF. How that record made the Thatcher reforms possible. Peel and Disraeli Show How Conservatives Reform Without Wrecking Britain's Conservatives in the nineteenth century showed that conserving an order can mean changing it first, a lesson Burke stated and Peel and Disraeli lived. The War of 1812 Gave America a Burned Capital and a Second Independence A young republic fought the world's greatest navy over impressment and trade, lost its capital to fire, and came out of the war more united and more respected. Burke Versus Paine, the Argument That Defined Left and Right for Good The 1790-1791 clash between Burke's Reflections and Paine's Rights of Man set the terms of the left-right divide. Here they are side by side. Reagan at Westminster in 1982 Predicted the Soviet Collapse Out Loud In June 1982 Reagan told Parliament that Marxism-Leninism was headed for the ash heap of history. The passages, the plan, and what came by 1991. The 1689 English Bill of Rights and the arms clause Americans refused to copy England's 1689 arms clause protected Protestants, by rank, as Parliament allowed. The Americans wrote something broader, and the difference is the point.