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Conservatism

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The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. Nash

Authoritarian Drift in the United States by G. Scott Graham

The Rise and Fall of Antocracy by Terry Birdgenaw

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberalism & Fascism - Capitalism

29 books — 18 voters

The Diversity Delusion by Heather Mac Donald

The Price of Everything by Russell Roberts

Young Conservative reading list

50 books — 18 voters

Death Of The West by Patrick J. Buchanan

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

American Dissident

142 books — 18 voters

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T.S. Eliot

The intimate philosophy of art by John Armstrong

Roger Scruton's Bibliographies

104 books — 17 voters

Total Freedom by Chris Matthew Sciabarra

The Machinery of Freedom by David D. Friedman

Vegan Libertarian

48 books — 13 voters

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

Conservative Books

121 books — 51 voters

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“ The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized attempt to accuse them of bias whenever they say anything that the Right doesn't like. So rather than really try to report things objectively, they settle for being even-handed, which is not the same thing. One of my lines in a column—in which a number of people thought I was insulting them personally—was that if Bush said the Earth was flat, the mainstream media w ...more ”
― Paul Krugman

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“ There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consis There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. ...more ”
― Frank Wilhoit

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