What's Right? Waleed Aly on Conservatism. With Shaun Carney (p2)

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Where did the Right go wrong? With the departure of George W. Bush and John Howard, conservative parties in the US and Australia entered a period of turmoil. How might conservatism renew itself? Discussing his illuminating Quarterly Essay with Age journalist Shaun Carney, Waleed Aly discusses what a better conservatism might look like. He draws on the work of conservative thinkers, past and present, to outline the weakness of the 'Left versus Right' paradigm and to examine the current state of conservatism. Contending that conservative parties have backed themselves into a corner by embracing free-market extremism, he predicts that the key issues of the day, such as climate change and the financial crisis, mean a reactionary brand of politics is unlikely to work.

Presented by The Wheeler Centre, March 2010

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