Dan McCarthy on Willmoore Kendall, Public Orthodoxy and Majoritarianism, and Nationalist Populism

In This Episode:

• Dan McCarthy returns to the podcast to discuss Willmoore Kendall’s The Conservative Affirmation
• what majoritarianism and “the social contract” in the American tradition really means for today’s politics
• how Kendall interpreted John Locke and its relation to the American Founding

Texts Mentioned:

• The Conservative Affirmation by Willmoore Kendall
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George Nash
• The Dilemmas of American Conservatism, edited by Kenneth Deutsch
• What is Political Philosophy? by Leo Strauss
• Heaven Can Indeed Fall  by Christopher Owen
• John Locke and the Doctrine of Majority Rule  by Willmoore Kendall
• Tucker Carlson interview clip
• The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition by Willmoore Kendall
• The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
• Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
• The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The Government of Poland by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Modern Age

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