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Category Archives: Conservatives
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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Conservative Claims of Cultural Oppression: The Nature and Origins of Conservaphobia
Here are highlights from this work in progress by philosopher Rony Guldmann: Joel Kotkin writes in 2014: In ways not seen since at least the McCarthy era, Americans are finding themselves increasingly constrained by a rising class—what I call the … Continue reading
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Jews and the Conservative Rift
Historian Edward Shapiro, Marc B. Shapiro’s father, writes in 1999: American conservatism was enveloped in a mood of doubt and angst during the 1980s and 1990s precisely at the time when its message had seemingly never resonated more strongly. These … Continue reading
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Why can’t conservatives boycott? (4-6-21)
00:00 Why can’t conservatives mount effective boycotts? 03:00 What I Wouldn’t Give for a Shave That Isn’t Woke, https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-i-wouldnt-give-for-a-shave-that-isnt-woke-11617567413?mod=opinion_lead_pos6 09:00 Georgia becomes a proving ground for sports boycotts, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/06/georgia-becomes-proving-ground-sports-boycotts/ 11:00 Why half-hearted conservative boycotts rarely take root, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/06/why-half-hearted-conservative-boycotts-rarely-take-root/ 21:00 The … Continue reading
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Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Rick Perlstein writes in 2001: Goldwater’s approach to any political problem invariably derived from the evidence of his own eyes—an attitude most visible in his views on discrimination. “There never was a lot of it,” he recalled of the Phoenix … Continue reading
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The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities By John J. Mearsheimer
Here are some excerpts from this 2018 book: Political liberalism, in fact, comes in two varieties: what some call modus vivendi liberalism and progressive liberalism, a terminology I use throughout this book.11 There are basically two important differences between them, … Continue reading
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Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America by Paul Gottfried
From Amazon: “This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his ideas and followers reshaped the American conservative movement. According to this study, Strauss and his disciples came to influence the establishment Right almost … Continue reading
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The Death Of Conservatism
00:00 Conservative weekly Weekly Standard closes after 23 years 06:00 Google Funds Establishment Conservatives to Fight Tech Regulation 20:00 Mick Mulvaney is the new Chief of Staff 21:00 Tesla sounds like Theranos, Life Inside Tesla’s Production Hell 25:00 Over-work makes … Continue reading
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Weekly Standard Closing Shop (12-4-18)
00:00 Goodbye Weekly Standard 04:00 Luke profiled in the Weekly Standard by Matt Labash in 1998 16:00 Tim Cook of Apple says it is a “sin” to platform people like us 17:00 Ryan Murphy fund aims to get ‘anti-LGBTQ’ candidates … Continue reading
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