https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/tags/liberalism/Recent content in Liberalism on MarginaliaHugoen-usMon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/american-conservatism/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sguzman.github.io/marginalia/posts/american-conservatism/This report formalizes and tests the claim that American conservatism is intellectually unstable because the United States was founded not as a traditional conservative order, but as a modern liberal-republican revolution. The evidence supports a qualified version of the critique: the founding is liberal and revolutionary at the level of first principles, but more conservative at the level of institutional engineering and social practice.