For your listening pleasure, here's our deep-dive on Joan Didion's conservatism—her Sacramento roots, her early writing for National Review, why she loved Barry Goldwater (and hated Ronald Reagan), and much more. Our guest? The great Sam Tanenhaus. Enjoy!…https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/joan-didion-conservative-w-sam-tanenhaus …
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Replying to @MatthewSitman
Pro-Goldwater, anti-Reagan was definitely a thing with the early NR crowd. See also Hugh Kenner & Karl Hess.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @MatthewSitman
Indeed! We get into Kenner’s objections briefly.
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Replying to @SamAdlerBell @MatthewSitman
Kenner really had contempt for Reagan. It's more in his letters to Davenport & Buckley than even in his one published piece on RR.
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