![Reading Edmund Burke Shows That Conservatism Is All About Defending Traditional Hierarchies Reading Edmund Burke Shows That Conservatism Is All About Defending Traditional Hierarchies](https://realnews.today/media/edmund_burke-310x168.jpg)
Studying the writings of Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, reveals something important: that right-wing intellectual thought is little more than a series of dressed-up defenses of conventional social relations and traditional hierarchies.