Debate: Conservatives and Equality

Are conservatives against equality? Are liberals the real aristocrats?

Matthew McManus

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Carlo Lancellotti

Sep 26, 2024

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It’s a cliché: liberals care about equality of outcome, and conservatives care about equality of opportunity.

Some liberals take this conservative attitude to be an indication that conservatives are against equality as a political ideal because, in their heart of hearts, they don’t believe in equality of persons.

Is the cliché true? Is political conserva…

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A guest post by

Matthew McManus

Matt McManus teaches at the University of Michigan and is the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism and The Political Right and Equality amongst other books. His forthcoming book is The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism (Routledge)

A guest post by

Carlo Lancellotti

Carlo Lancellotti is a Professor of Mathematics at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He is also the translator of three volumes of essays by the late Italian philosopher and political thinker Augusto Del Noce.