in america, he is laudatory of irving babbitt and paul elmer ore. that i think are great guys but nobody picks up on them. john: there are others we know well. bradley: absolutely. he end the book with t.s. eliot. he and eliot become very good friends and shape each other's hought profoundly. i don't think we could have had conservatism in america without eliot, who really sanctioned kirk. certainly, burke is important. kirk gives his bookends for "the conservative mind" starting with burke and john adams, the cheat of great conservatives as he sees it. he ends with t.s. eliot. he has these 26 figures in between. burke is important and is a great figure, and i have the great privilege of teaching founding of the american epublic. i get to teach it every two years, and i absolutely love it, but i always make sure that as the students are reading john dickinson or thomas jefferson, we also do a good deal of burke. part of that is because i like kirk, and i like burke as well, but a huge part of it is because burke was the leading mind in arliament. he