7. And this tendency to emphasize the wrong things also sometimes applies to devs. inside the con. mvmt. It's like Leo Rosten's point that "Two tickets for her concert I should buy?" can be read 7 different ways depending on which word is stressedhttps://books.google.com/books?id=V04IRE3SwmgC&pg=PR16&lpg=PR16&dq=leo+rosten+i+should+buy+two+tickets+to+her+concert&source=bl&ots=osqsm8zpxJ&sig=zFeL5oMqupPJvNp1Z-8KeGthQLo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJwe_6krPdAhUmU98KHWYZAOoQ6AEwAnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=leo%20rosten%20i%20should%20buy%20two%20tickets%20to%20her%20concert&f=false …
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8. Is it necessary to have been involved with the con mvmt to write about it? No. Would such experience be helpful? Yes. More pol. historians should also spend time on Capitol Hill. Writing history is in many ways an effort to compensate for the handicap of not having been there
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9. What I do lament is that there are few conservative scholars at universities and the vast majority of academic histories of conservatism therefore are written by liberals. If you don't think this limits the collective possibilities of such history, you lack imagination
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10. Heer's claim that I gloss over the dark side of conservatism is false. My book is all about the decades-long effort (ultimately unsuccessful) to keep the dark side out of the movement and the GOP.
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11. I argued, years ago and in Heer's own mag, that Buckley deserved credit for this but that the failure of his successors to gatekeep was a major indictment of modern conservatism:https://newrepublic.com/article/102241/what-william-buckley-american-conservatism …
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12. But that doesn't mean I think Buckley's racism, and NR's, deserve a pass. One of the strengths of Carl Bogus' WFB bio is that he levels a scorching indictment against NR's opposition to civil rights...https://www.amazon.com/Buckley-William-Rise-American-Conservatism/dp/1596915803 …
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13. ...but at the same Bogus acknowledges that free-market logic compelled NR to support the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott. That level of nuance is lost, if not in lib histories of conservatism, at least in indictments like Heer's
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14. An advantage of *not* being a liberal historian writing about conservatism is that you don't have to use kid gloves when dealing with the dark side, as I think McGirr did at times with the Birchers' racism & lunacy in her (superb) "Suburban Warriors" https://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Warriors-Origins-American-Politics/dp/0691096112 …
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15. But objectivity should compel the acknowledgement that Buckley at least did struggle to find the line on racial issues -- as he did for ex. by firing Joe Sobran for racism, which you wouldn't know from Heer's articlehttps://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2012/01/23/courting-cranks/ …
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Replying to @RuleandRuin
Buckley didn't fire Soban for racism but for disagreeing with National Review on first Iraq war. In any case he published Sobran's essay, often racists ones, for nearly two decades.
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Ah, I was wrong about Sobran -- the anti-Semitism was the precipitating cause.
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