It was a joy to speak with Yale's Gregory Collins about his book, Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy. The Burke that emerges is one not immediately familiar to us: a principled reformer with powers of imaginative eloquence, yes; yet one with an equally deep appreciation of empirical data and its ability to inform sound political decision making.
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#15 Re-discovering the ”Empirical” Burke: Commerce and Manners with Gregory Collins
Nov 14, 2023

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How can we keep our institutions alive and healthy in times of cultural change? In conversation with a range of leaders, academics, writers and artists I’m going to consider how we might renew our cultural life through ideas and imagination.
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