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Category Archives: Conservatives
Darren Beattie and the Turn of Trumpism
Darren Jeffrey Beattie (b. August 1985) is an American political theorist, writer, media entrepreneur, and government official. His career traces the passage of Trump-era conservatism from a posture that sought acceptance inside established institutions to one that set out to … Continue reading
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‘Marx was not Woke’
In April, 2023, Paul Gottfried reviewed in Chronicles magazine the 2022 Yoram Hazony book Conservatism: A Rediscovery: Marx was not in the least concerned with nonbinary oppression, raging homophobia, or the inherently evil nature of being white. This father of … Continue reading
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Ben Sasse & The Wisdom
Ben Sasse sits across from Ross Douthat with dried blood on his face, a side effect of the experimental drug daraxonrasib that prevents normal skin growth. He is funny about it. He has been funny about everything. His pancreatic cancer … Continue reading
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Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: On the Nature and Origins of ‘Conservaphobia’
In his book in progress, author Rony Guldmann’s central argument is that conservative claims of cultural oppression are philosophically serious and that the liberal academy treats conservative grievances as symptoms of psychological deficit rather than as positions worth engaging. Conservatives, … Continue reading
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The Last Cassandras: Status, Trauma, and the Conservative Apocalyptic Genre
Jeffrey Alexander (b. 1947) argues in his cultural trauma theory that trauma is not the automatic result of material harm. It is a social claim, advanced by carrier groups who translate diffuse anxieties into a morally legible narrative. The conservative … Continue reading
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Wikipedia’s Conservative Commentators Series
I was looking at the entry for Christopher Caldwell and I saw something new on the page – he’s listed with a series of conservative commentators. I find the list hilarious. What other august names are linked with Caldwell? These … Continue reading
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Who Owns the Wound: Never Trump and the Politics of Conservative Mourning
Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural trauma framework reveals something the mournful-conservatism literature rarely admits: the grief is real, the competition is real, and the meaning of the grief is itself the prize. Never Trumpers like Frum, French, Goldberg, Kristol, and Wehner are … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Conservative Media Authority
American conservative-media high-status actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power, prestige, or income. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as fidelity to truth against elite lies, loyalty to the forgotten American, … Continue reading
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NYT: Shootings Pose a Hard Question for the Right: Who’s a Conservative, Really?
The New York Times publishes a lot of dumb articles but this one is especially dumb: “Republicans wrestle with Trump administration positions that seem to contradict their beliefs on gun rights, states’ rights and limited use of federal power.” ChatGPT … Continue reading
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Never Trump & The Principled Conservatives
ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory would interpret Jonah Goldberg, William Kristol, and the “principled constitutional conservative” Never-Trump cohort not primarily as defenders of abstract norms, but as members of a collapsing alliance network who chose to remain loyal to an old … Continue reading
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