Matt McManus is the author of "The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism" amongst other books and a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Michigan.
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The reactionary right is in ascendance in the Trump administration. It's easy to dismiss them as a cabal of incoherent fools scrambling for Trump's ear. But there is a deeper philosophy animating their political project: one based on a longing for an imagined aristocratic past, a
The radical right has its own canon of intellectuals—aristocratic, resentful, and a profound challenge to liberal philosophy.
Rogers has written a useful guide to the western conservative intellectual tradition that runs into trouble when it approaches the conservatives of our day.
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Samantha and fellow Liberal Currents editor Paul Crider talk to Matt McManus, author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, about a forgotten political tradition, the intellectual fallout of the Russian Revolution, and what this all means for how we think about the contemporary dangers of oligarchy and reaction. Liberal.
The intellectual history of this seemingly contradictory political tendency.
Scruton was a serious and thoughtful philosopher whose views warrant careful engagement.
A liberal vision with a long tradition.
Where conservatives may seek to conserve their democratic systems, reactionaries by their nature seek to weaken or abolish them.
The 20th century political theorist has much to offer for the contemporary left liberal.
Can we still draw hope from the past successes of Swedish social democracy?
A leftist alternative to originalism is needed now more than ever
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