conservatism

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  1/11/2022
  

  Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection

  by Melinda Cooper

  Trumpism's base includes significant leadership and financial support from a faction of capitalists who own and lead private companies and shun many of the concessions made by publicly-traded corporations toward liberalism. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/11/2022
  

  Ultras: The Rise of America's Far Right (Review)

  by Kim Phillips-Fein

  Kim Phillips-Fein reviews John Huntington's "Far-Right Vanguard," calling his history of the far right a needed reminder of the porousness of boundaries between the right-wing fringe and mainstream conservatism in the 20th century. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/11/2022
  

  Why Do We Know So Little about the 1930s Coup Attempt against FDR?

  by Sally Denton

  "In a climate of conspiracies and intrigues, and against the backdrop of charismatic dictators in the world such as Hitler and Mussolini, the sparks of anti-Rooseveltism ignited into full-fledged hatred."

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• SOURCE: National Interest
  1/2/2022
  

  How Willmoore Kendall Invented Trumpism

  by Jacob Heilbrunn

  Christopher Owens's biography places Willmoore Kendall in the first rank of postwar conservative intellectuals and identifies him with the fusion of populism and traditionalism associated with the Trumpist right and the burgeoning "national conservative" movements.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  1/6/2022
  

  Why Didn't January 6 Force Moderation on the Republicans?

  "So there was a moment after January 6, where it seemed like the right was ready to disown Trump. They were ready to disown everybody who was involved in January 6. And for all kinds of reasons that was a very brief window that didn’t last."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/30/2021
  

  Tracing the Origins of Today's Archconservatives (Review)

  by Randall J. Stephens

  "John Huntington convincingly concludes that Trump 'tapped into the government mistrust, racial resentment, and conspiratorial beliefs that had festered within conservatism for decades'."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2021
  

  Why does Biden's Term Register as a Disappointment? We've Misread the Political Regime Cycle

  by Corey Robin

  The author was among those who thought Joe Biden might seize a "reconstructive moment" to push aside the social austerity politics of the Reagan Revolution. The problem hasn't been Biden's will, but the disproportionate obstructive power conservatives still hold. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/8/2021
  

  David Brooks: My Conservatism is Dead

  Is today's conspiratorial and ethnonationalist conservatism a break from the Burkean roots of the movement and its highest ideals? David Brooks says it is. What happens next? 

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  12/1/2021
  

  Is the Anti-Pope Francis Rad-Trad Catholic Movement Headed to QAnon Territory?

  by Joshua P. Hevert and Thomas Lecaque

  "While the Middle Ages may feel very distant, the amping up of apocalyptic rhetoric in a struggle over the papacy and the direction of the church is very current."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/30/2021
  

  Conservatives Today Carry on Buckley's Legacy of Being Mad at Higher Ed – But Not His Motivation

  William F. Buckley warned in 1951 that Yale professors were too heterodox. Today's academic culture warriors are worried that faculty are inculcating an orthodoxy other than their own, argues Virginia Heffernan.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/26/2021
  

  Reagan's Go-To Magazine Has Gone Full MAGA – What it Means for Conservatism

  "The renaissance of the magazine provides the perfect capsule summary of the conservative movement’s long downward journey from pages to pixels."

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• 11/21/2021
  

  Perlstein's "Reaganland" Sheds New Light on a Familiar Story

  by Ron Steinman

  Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" captures details of the 1980 campaign that weren't obvious even to political journalists covering Reagan's ultimately successful mission to take the conservative movement to the White House. 

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• SOURCE: Know Your Enemy Podcast
  10/25/2021
  

  John Ganz and Lauren Stokes on the American Right's Hungary Hearts

  Historian Lauren Stokes helps to explain the American right's embrace of Viktor Orban and the right-wing regime in Hungary. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  10/26/2021
  

  Right-Wing Trolling Didn't Start with Trump

  by Rick Perlstein

  "Owning the libs" through stunts and irony didn't start with Trump. Since World War II, getting under liberals' skin has mattered as much as policy and ideology, argues the historian of the conservative movement. 

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• 10/24/2021
  

  How the Republicans Became the Anti-Abortion Party, and What it Means for the GOP Today

  by Donne Levy

  Conservative evangelicals rode the abortion issue to a place of power in the Republican coalition. Will their success help or harm the party now that abortion rights are more imperiled than at any time since 1973? 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  10/18/2021
  

  Claremont's Bogus "Censorship" Charge Against American Political Science Association

  "As with almost any instance of so-called cancel culture, the question at hand is ultimately a specific substantive one: What did John Eastman do and was it wrong?"

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  10/14/2021
  

  Critical Race Fury: The School Board Wars Are Getting Nasty in Texas

  "The threat the loud and the angry pose isn’t necessarily that they win outright but that they tire others out—that they make public service too burdensome, too painful, too tedious."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/13/2021
  

  Gaming Elections is a Conservative Political Tradition

  by John S. Huntington

  "Conservatives have spent generations attempting to exploit arcane and anti-democratic electoral structures to carve a pathway for minoritarian rule."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/30/2021
  

  Misappropriating MLK in the Critical Race Theory Debate

  by Tyler D. Parry

  Selective readings of Martin Luther King's writing and speeches swap his radical critiques of capitalism, militarism and inequality for bland colorblindness. The fact is that "CRT" is deeply rooted in King's work, which was unpopular among white Americans in his own time. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  9/30/2021
  

  My Father Harry Jaffa and the Birth of Modern Conservatism

  by Philip Jaffa

  Political scientist Harry Jaffa succeeded in cajoling the disparate elements of the right into a coalition dedicated to the pared-down goals of defeating Soviet communism and domestic socialism; after claiming victory in those battles, the coaltion has faltered.