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Invisible Hands w/ Kim Phillips-Fein

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What We Learned From National Review's History of Fusionism

National review is rightly known for pioneering what the historian george nash has described as the fusion of conservative ideas. What do we learn about this really important story of fusionism when we understand the role played by reactionary business men in making it a reality? It's less interesting to some of the people whose money and resources pushed us all forward than what they shared, which was a sense of the dangers of welfare state or labor. And that these ideas could be used to blunt any shift at all towards a more galetarian politics and economy.

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