Edmund Burke, father of conservatism with Austin Clements

References and suggested readings:

• Austin J. Clements, ‘The Franco Way’: The American Right and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9, Journal of Contemporary History 57(2), 341-364
• Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolutions in France
• Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2017)
• Katy Hull, The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism (Princeton University Press, 2025)
• John Patrick Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America (Princeton University Press, 2015)
• Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
• David Austin Walsh, Liberals Are to Blame for the Rise of J. D. Vance, Boston Review, July 22, 2024
• George H. Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (ISI Books, 2006).
• Perry Anderson, Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War (Verso, 2026)
• Austin’s faculty page, Instagram @clementsaustinj, and email aclemen8@nd.edu