The Conservative Virtue

In contemporary America, the most glamorous of the virtues is undoubtedly justice. On battlefields, courage will always shine more brightly, but few have experience of hand-to-hand combat today. Moral courage is in even scarcer supply. In domestic politics, on the other hand, justice still shimmers aloft for impressionable persons seeking a north star for their idealism. The other cardinal virtues, not so much. We have social justice warriors but not prudence warriors or moderation warriors.