{"id":10376,"date":"2016-05-04T09:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=10376"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:31:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:31:42","slug":"the-reactionary-mind-ross-douthat-gives-me-an-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2016\/05\/the-reactionary-mind-ross-douthat-gives-me-an-excuse.html","title":{"rendered":"“The Reactionary Mind”: Ross Douthat Gives Me an Excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

to push you toward the late virago Florence King (I\u2019d start here<\/a>) and also to suggest Charles Johnson<\/a> as someone whose weird little parables expressed a lot of reactionary insights from a black American perspective. Also, follow Don Colacho<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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\u2026Our intelligentsia obviously does have a conservative wing, mostly clustered in think tanks rather than on campuses. But little of this conservatism really deserves the name reaction<\/em>. What liberals attack as \u201creactionary\u201d on the American right is usually just a nostalgia for the proudly modern United States of the Eisenhower or Reagan eras \u2014 the effective equivalent of liberal nostalgia for the golden age of labor unions. A truly reactionary vision has to reject more than just the Great Society or Roe v. Wade; it has to cut deeper, to the very roots of the modern liberal order.<\/p>\n

Such deep critiques of our society abound in academia; they\u2019re just almost all on the left. A few true reactionaries haunt the political philosophy departments at Catholic universities and publish in paleoconservative journals. But mostly the academy has Marxists but not Falangists, Jacobins but not Jacobites, sexual and economic and ecological utopians but hardly ever a throne-and-altar Joseph de Maistre acolyte. And almost no academic who writes on, say, Thomas Carlyle or T. S. Eliot or Rudyard Kipling would admit to any sympathy for their politics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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to push you toward the late virago Florence King (I\u2019d start here) and also to suggest Charles Johnson as someone whose weird little parables expressed a lot of reactionary insights from a black American perspective. 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