Joshua Tait
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James Burnham and Arthur Koestler in Berlin, 1950, “that traumatic synecdoche of the Cold War,” as Burnham named it. Burnham was a member of the OPC, a military intelligence psy-op
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Salazar offers little to truly emulate to the right. Domestically, Salazarism was personalism, of a diligent and relatively benign sort compared to other dictators. 1/https://twitter.com/Joshua_A_Tait/status/1327345722413367297 Authority ca
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The 1776 Report seems like the maudlin Americanism and conservative demonology of West Coast Straussianism at its most cartoonish. 1/ West Coast Straussianism, in large part the thought of Harry
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Kevin Williamson runs against conservative orthodoxy with this piece in National Review. But also against the magazine's history of anti-Establishment and Eisenhower criticism. (thread) https://www.nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/the-end
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Revisiting Richard Hofstadter's essay 'The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt' (1955). Here are the highlights of an essay that was in many ways prescient: (thread) Hofstadter sketches out a distinction between restrained conservatism
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