"By Embracing the Free Market so Completely, the Party Had Gone Calamitously Awry"

"Fairlie's views of toryism, like his views of most things (America, women, Parliament, Scotch), were deeply romantic. He described his kind of conservative as one who stands alongside 'the King and the People, against the barons and the capitalists.' In other words, government's role was to preserve tradition and social order, not to speed the accumulation of great power and wealth among the elites or to enact sudden or overreaching reforms. He warmed to this view as a boy, when summers on a family farm in Scotland taught him that 'nothing very much changes, and then changes only slowly.' He refined it as an adult, coming to revere the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom he called 'the greatest tory of them all,' and absorb the writings of Michael Oakeshott, 'the most formative conservative political thinker of his generation.' When he arrived in America, he expected to find conservatives with similar beliefs.  Instead he found the Republicans."

In a 2009 Newsweek article, Jeremy McCarter profiles British writer Henry Fairlie, who died in 1990.