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About nine months after Michael Oakeshott’s death on December 19, 1990, the journal Political Theory introduced its August 1991 edition with three short essays dedicated to his memory. In the same edition, grouped under the title “The Faces of Conservatism,” the journal published three essays on Edmund Burke. Here, Political Theory brought together consideration of two of the best-known voices of British conservatism. Yet, regardless of all he wrote about tradition, Oakeshott explicitly separated himself from the heritage of Burke; for example, in “On Being Conservative” Oakeshott asserted “there is more to be learnt about this [conservative] disposition from Montaigne, Pascal, Hobbes and Hume, than from Burke or Bentham.”¹ Still, one of the Political Theory essays on Burke does reveal an interesting similarity between Burke and Oakeshott: the manifold nature of their legacy. In “The Skeptic’s Burke …