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To Shanshu in D.C.

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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The Origins of Conservatism

There were lots of strands of conservatism in American intellectual and public life prior to 1945. There was definitely libertarianism of one stripe or another, like an actual ideology of freedom. The notion of what constituted right wing was so distorted by the issue of communism on the left that a lot of useful idiots believed it.

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