Timeless Desire by Torie N. James5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Yet today, the whole idea of western “Conservatism,” a movement built in the unique pressures of the Cold War, is metamorphosing into new forms. ![]() It lost much of its meaning in Canada decades ago, and in the United States it is used to label Loyalists hostile to the American Revolution. ![]() “Tory” is now a byword most often synonymous with the British Conservative Party, covering all its factions. One day in the late nineteenth century, as the great English literary critic and professor George Saintsbury walked over an English bridge, two passersby looked at back him, one saying to the other, “There goes the biggest Tory in England.” Saintsbury, a proud and outspoken Tory, took it as flattery, even though his observers certainly did not intend it that way. This tradition comes from within America, not without. ![]() There is a Tory tradition in America that runs against the grain of establishment Liberalism, embracing home, hearth, community, family, church, nature, and the moral realities of everyday life, and opposed to individualism, unlimited free markets, libertarianism, secularism, and the rootless loneliness of global modernity. ![]()
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