dr. lee edwards. dr. edwards serves heritage as a distinguished fellow and conservative thought in our beacon of simon center for principles and politics. he is well known and this community and most of us consider him the historian of the conservative movement. he was the founder and chairman of the victims of communism memorial foundation, has written numerous books and biographies of organizations related to the conservative movement, serves as an adjunct professor at catholic university of america as well as many other important positions. please join me in welcoming dr. lee edwards. [applause] thank you and good afternoon and good evening. it is a beautiful day in washington and a great day to be alive. withve an opportunity these dissing was panelists to talk about one of our favorite subjects which is conservatis m. what is conservatism? we will say. many -- we will see. many have tried and succeeded at providing an answer. russell kirk wrote a 470 page book. frank meyer came up with a new theory,

dr. lee edwards, dr. edwards served heritage about a distinguished fellow and conservative thought in our center for principles and politics. he is well known in this community and most of us consider him the historian of the conservative movement. he was the founder and chairman of the victims of communism memorial foundation, has written numerous books, buying a graphs related to conservatives movement. is an adjunct professor tet catholic college of america. join me in welcoming dr. lee edwards. [applause] >> well, thank you, john, and good afternoon and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. it's beautiful day in washington and great day to be alive. particularly when we have an opportunity with such distinguished panelists to talk about one of our favorite subjects, which is conservativism. so, here we are. what is conservativism? well, we'll see. many have tried and few have succeeded in providing an agreeable answer. bill buckley, for example, polite he declined. russell kirk rote -- wrote a 478 page

dr. lee edwards. dr. edwards serves heritage as a distinguished fellow in conservative thought in our center for principles and politics. he is well known in this community and most of us consider him the historian of the conservative movement. he was the founder and chairman of the victims of communism memorial foundation, has written numerous books and biographies and histories of organizations related to the conservative movement, serves as an adjunct professor at catholic university [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] particularly when we have an opportunity with such distinguished panelists to talk about one of our favorite subjects, which is conservatism. so here we are. what is conservatism? well, we will see. many have tried, and few have succeeded in providing an agreeable answer. bill buckley politely declined. russell kirk wrote a 478 page

dr. in lee edwards. [applause] >> it's a great day to be alive our alk about one of favorite subjects which is conservatism. here we are. what is conservatism? we'll see. have ave tried and few succeeded in providing an agreeable answer. buckley, for example, politely declined. 478-page irk wrote a book, the conservative mind. up with a new about which nism, i'll have a few things to say a little bit later, and another to ended himself with a laining why he was not conservative. and rand, what did she do? she flashed the sign of the dollar. that was her explanation of what it is. here we are this evening, gnawing at this hold bone trying to answer what is conservatism. thoughts.a few in the forwards to the volume "american conservative thought n the 20th century," the liberal professor leonard levy conservatismkley's s the following: "vigorously individualistic, in favor of liberty, hostile to egal inism and tolerant. thesistic in character, it nonbelievers though tradition oriented and partial o continu