So: the Olin Foundation was a big funder of the old high-brow neo-conservatism, trying to build an intellectual beachhead that could hold its own in academia & attract disaffected liberals. Fact it closed up shop in 2005 seems to mark the end of that tendency.
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Olin lucre huge ($370 million) and created a distinctive niche for a style of high-brown conservatism that tried to make inroads in general culture (and sometimes did: Allan Bloom's Closing). Another big success was seeding Federalist Society.
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Arguably one of the shifts on the right came when Olin money was supplanted by Koch money and Mercer money. Compare the Olin New Criterion of 1980s (genuinely high-brow) with the more partisan & coarser New Criterion of nowhttps://thebaffler.com/latest/decline-of-the-new-criterion-ganz …
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Can you break it down to 15 tweets or less?
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Well as a matter of fact...I haven't. Sorry! Would love for Jeet to say/write more on this.
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I’d be curious to see who’s trying to focus on right wing academics without them.
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I want to learn how to tun progressive ideas through some kind of conservative rigor.
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Steve Teles is the person to talk to - the Conservative Legal Movement book was written too soon after to dig into aftermath - but he surely knows the stuff.
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