On Being A Conservative - by Cass Sunstein

Lessons from Friedrich Hayek

1 Friedrich Hayek is a great hero to conservatives, and rightly so. He revered traditions. He despised socialism. He favored free markets. Hayek helps to define modern conservatism. And yet one of his most interesting and vivid essays has this title: Why I Am Not A Conservative. Well, why wasn’t he? And what might we learn from his clear desire to distinguish himself from conservatives? 2 In the relevant essay, written in the late 1950s and published in 1960, Hayek rejected the idea that socialists are on the left, conservatives on the right, and liberals in the middle. He didn’t like…

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