There's a book to be written on how the deepest & most interesting conservative thinkers (Kennan, John Lukacs, Gene Wolfe, Hugh Kenner) tend not to influence movement conservatism.
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Davenport too, and in this between them they formed a kind of school
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That's what the review I'm writing is all about!
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Something Eliot, too, understood. Also not a big hero of movement conservatism. But also considerably more difficult to embrace, I would imagine, than Kenner.
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Chesterton makes a similar point in talking about the need to change the Uffington Horse in order to preserve it.
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It's not an accident that Kenner's first book is on Chesterton.
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