From Bad Subjects, Joseph Natoli on the neoliberal/right-wing psyche. The Republican Brain: Chris Mooney on why even educated conservatives deny science — and reality. From FDL, a book salon on The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin. What sets conservatives apart from authoritarians and fascists? As the term "conservative" is co-opted more and more by true reactionaries, the whole supposedly "conservative" outlook is rooting itself more and more in the past, and an increasingly distant past at that. What is a conservative? Right-leaning thinkers answer one of three questions to help define both their ideology and their challenges for the future. Can conservative intellectuals go home again? Know your gnostics: Gene Callahan on how Eric Voegelin diagnosed the neoconservatives’ disease. From The University Bookman, a review of Edmund Burke For Our Time: Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics by William F. Byrne; a review of From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism by D. G. Hart; and a review of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America by Benjamin L. Carp.
