1. I have some problems with this @DouthatNYT column about reactionary intellectuals. I'll try to be brief:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/the-reactionary-mind.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0 …
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@HeerJeet are you taking this up with the Cabalist?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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5. Judith Shklar's great essay "The Liberalism of Fear" is a necessary corrective to Douthat: http://philpapers.org/archive/SHKTLO.pdf …
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6. Douthat has a point that the reactionary sensibility has largely disappeared from intellectual life aside from the dingbats of alt right
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@HeerJeet That liberalism died a century ago, to be replaced by Jacobin Utopianism. -
... You don't hand over ~50% of 'social spending' to the state if you still have any serious reservations about concentrated power.
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@HeerJeet Seems a very middle-class and American liberalism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet In that sense any "optimistic" ideology can be said to "fear" its opposite, rendering the distinction meaningless.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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