The Inventor of Modern Conservatism
The Inventor of Modern Conservatism by David Gelernter 02/07/2005, The Weekly Standard BENJAMIN DISRAELI--TWICE PRIME minister of Great Britain, romantic novelist, inventor of modern conservatism--was a neocon in the plain sense of the word, a "new conservative" who began his career on the left. Conservative thinking dates to the dawn of organized society, but modern conservat..