McKay Stangler on Richard Weaver, the Southern Agrarians, and the Politics of Language

In this episode:

• McKay Stangler, ISI’s Director of Foundation Relations, joins the podcast to discuss Richard Weaver, one of the luminary figures of the early conservative movement
• a crash course in the themes of the southern agrarian tradition: practice, place, and solidarity
• how to recover a sense of the shared use of language, and the social solidarity that accompanies it

Texts Mentioned:

• Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
• Visions of Order by Richard Weaver
• Boomers by Helen Andrews
• After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
• “Up from Liberalism” by Richard Weaver
• “House Divided Speech” by Abraham Lincoln

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