Important Book: "The Conservative Intellectual Movement Since 1945"

[Sammy Pepys]

I'm only about 200 pages in, but this is a highly recommended book. I've swapped Croly's "The Promise of American Life" with conservative at work, who raved about this one. I definitely have a high opinion of it too, but not for the reasons he does.

This book, which chronicles the rise of conservatism as a popular philosophy after WWII, is a great illustration of where today's conservatism has gone astray. I made a post about this the other week, and some folks poo-poo'd it ("Must be the shortest book in history"), but it is chalk full of major ammo. It can easily be read as an indictment of the current administration.

Seriously, pick it up if you have a chance.

[WinkyDink]

1. Part of the "Oxymoron" series?

[bryant69]

3. This comment displays a certain willful ignorance

Still it is a popular sentiment so I can't really blame you.

Conservatives can be wrong and still have intellectual frameworks worth knowing about, if for no other reason than it makes it easier to dissassemble them.

Bryant
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[Sammy Pepys]

4. Thanks...this is exactly what I'm getting at. n/t

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[WinkyDink]

6. Oh, for Pete's sake. It was a JOKE.

NO KIDDING Conservatives operate within their own "intellectual frameworks".

BTW, I actually used to teach Samuel Pepys, ignorant fool that I am.

[Lisa]

9. and to think I had a "MAD Library of Very Thin Books" comment all ready to go ...

I'm with you, WinkyDink. Guess we just can't help ourselves! I also poke fun at statements like "North American culture" -- even though I'm in the social sciences and we're supposed to get all exasperated when people do that. (And of course "social scientist" is an invitation for cheap laughs, for a bunch of different reasons.)

[SpiralHawk]

2. There are no republicon 'conservatives'

The cons like to use that word, but in reality they are a radical pack of cronies who spend like drunken soldiers, who engage in risky illicit sex behind closet doors, and who are trashing the environment (natural capital) necessary for our children and grandchildren.

the republicons may mouth 'conservative' platitudes, but that's just a propaganda veneer. They are dangerous, spendthrift scofflaw radicals. And they have proved it repeatedly.

[The Count]

5. Brings up the question:

[Sammy Pepys]

7. That's a big part of the book......n/t

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[EstimatedProphet]

8. How do you read 200 blank pages?

:)