# Edmund Burke, Intellectuals, and the French Revolution, Part 4

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/edmund-burke-intellectuals-and-the-french-revolution-part-4>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** November 16, 2016

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George H. Smith explains the defense of rights and other abstract political principles given by James Mackintosh, one of Burke’s most effective critics.

[Originally published in essay form on April 4, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/edmund-burke-intellectuals-french-revolution-part-4)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._