This article is from the Conservatism FAQ, by Jim Kalb kalb@aya.yale.edu with numerous contributions by others.
If conservatism is so
great, why are most people seriously involved in studying and dealing with
social issues liberals?
Conservatives believe it is impossible to
define and control theconsiderations relevant to social life accurately enough to make a
technological approach to society possible. They reject efforts to
divide human affairs into compartments to be dealt with by experts as
part of a comprehensive plan for promoting goals like equality and
prosperity. Academic and other policy experts are defined as such by
their participation in such efforts. It would be surprising if they
did not prefer perspectives that give those efforts free rein, such
as welfare-state liberalism, over perspectives that are suspicious of
them.
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