Category Archives: Conservatives

Bloody Panico

Geoffrey Wheatcroft writes in the New York Review: * 2022 will be remembered as the year of two monarchs and three prime ministers, not to mention four chancellors of the exchequer, five education secretaries, and more than thirty resignations from … Continue reading

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What’s The Matter With Kansas? (2004)

This paternalistic book by Thomas Frank seems to be still the dominant way that liberals understand the working class voting Republican. BBC journalist Helen Lewis tells the Decoding the Gurus gang in a discussion that is exclusively on Patreon that … Continue reading

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Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s

Here are some highlights from this 2022 book by Nicole Hemmer: * Ronald Reagan, himself a radio and television host, set out to repeal the Fairness Doctrine from the start of his presidency, something his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finally … Continue reading

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Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia, Part Two

Here are highlights from this work in progress by philosopher Rony Guldmann: * Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education, which initiated the author’s notoriety as a conservative commentator, made a point of upbraiding the multicultural Left’s hypocrisy in celebrating non-Western cultures as … Continue reading

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The Conservative Case For Victimhood (7-18-22)

00:20 Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=144168 02:30 Tucker bashes Joe Biden 37:00 Hunter Biden 42:00 We wuz victims, https://radixjournal.substack.com/p/we-wuz-victims 48:40 Tiktok as a driver of American chaos 55:00 How Tucker Carlson became the … Continue reading

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