The British Statesman Who Recognized America's 'Fierce Spirit of Liberty' ^38.2%

Reason.com - By Damon Root - 6/27/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 21.5% - False Dilemma 14% - Hasty Generalization 13.2%

In a special America 250 issue, Reason takes a look back at our country's founding people and ideas. Read more here. In 1790, the British statesman Edmund Burke published the work that made his name. Part diatribe and part manifesto, Reflections on the Revolution in France denounced that world-shaking upheaval not only for its "crude and... more