SOURCE: Know Your Enemy Podcast
5/17/2021
tags: conservatism, political history, democracy, intellectual history, podcasts
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5/17/2021
The Long Farewell to Majority Rule? (w/ Joshua Tait)
Historians in the Newstags: conservatism, political history, democracy, intellectual history, podcasts
In this follow-up episode to "Democracy and Its Discontents" (listen here), historian Joshua Tait joins Matt and Sam for a conversation about the intellectual origins of the American Right's hostility to democracy—from John C. Calhoun's invention of the filibuster in the nineteenth century to the writings of conservatives like Russell Kirk, James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall, and others, in the 1950s and '60s.
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