{"id":7826,"date":"2013-12-10T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=7826"},"modified":"2013-12-10T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:41:17","slug":"18th-century-fox-helen-rittelmeyer-is-hilarious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2013\/12\/18th-century-fox-helen-rittelmeyer-is-hilarious.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;18th Century Fox&#8221;: Helen Rittelmeyer Is Hilarious"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>in <em>AmSpec<\/em>, on Burke-era popular conservatism:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TWO THINGS ALL \u00a0conservatives love are narratives of decline and talking about conservatism. Put those together and you have the popular argument that conservatism ain\u2019t what it used to be. The chart of that supposed decline, if you were to draw it\u00a0<em>Ascent of Man<\/em>\u00a0style, would start with Edmund Burke looking intelligent and walking upright, followed by William F. Buckley as Australopithecus, slouching. The present age would be represented by some knuckle-dragging, prognathous creature like Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. First comes very smart, then pretty smart, and then not very smart at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/articles\/56096\/18th-century-fox\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a>\u2013and it gets better from there!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in AmSpec, on Burke-era popular conservatism: TWO THINGS ALL \u00a0conservatives love are narratives of decline and talking about conservatism. Put those together and you have the popular argument that conservatism ain\u2019t what it used to be. The chart of that supposed decline, if you were to draw it\u00a0Ascent of Man\u00a0style, would start with Edmund Burke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,25,50,159,222,138,22],"class_list":["post-7826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conservatism-considered-as-a-helix-of-semiprecious-stones","tag-england-your-england","tag-five-star-final","tag-helen-rittelmeyer","tag-progress-is-perverse","tag-the-endarkenment","tag-turn-your-watch-back-about-a-hundred-thousand-years"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;18th Century Fox&quot;: Helen Rittelmeyer Is Hilarious<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"in AmSpec, on Burke-era popular conservatism: TWO THINGS ALL \u00a0conservatives love are narratives of decline and talking about conservatism. 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