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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016

      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 …

      9 replies 17 retweets 52 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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      2. One really subtle problem is that @DouthatNYT sees liberalism as an "optimistic" ideology, usefully corrected by reactionary pessimism

      2 replies 7 retweets 17 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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      3. Liberalism, classical & modern, is ameliorative in intent but pessimistic about human virtue & perfectibility, hence belief in process

      10 replies 12 retweets 53 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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      4. Liberalism is rooted in fear: fear of arbitrary authority, fear of mob rule, fear of theocracy: a guarded ideology, not optimistic one

      6 replies 20 retweets 70 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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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 …

      5 replies 12 retweets 64 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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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

      3 replies 7 retweets 8 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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      7. In early 20th century there existed large pantheon of reactionary thinkers: Heidegger, Schmitt, Eliot, Kipling, Yeats, Pound, Maurras etc

      9 replies 7 retweets 21 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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      8. The great reactionaries seem to have disappeared. There aren't many counterparts to Heidegger or Eliot.

      7 replies 4 retweets 8 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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      9. As against Heidegger & Eliot, what we have today are think tank conservatives, who are essentially just right-wing liberals.

      12 replies 8 retweets 29 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016

      10. Where have the Heideggers & Eliots gone? Good question but But Douthat's answer (chased out of academia by liberals) not sufficient

      7:51 PM - 23 Apr 2016
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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          11. The great early 20th century reactionaries (Heidegger etc.) flourished because they had a social/political base.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2016
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          12. European right of early 20th century included both aristocrats (von Papen) & populist thugs (you know who). Heidegger fit in that space

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        2. Elbridge Colby‏Verified account @ElbridgeColby 24 Apr 2016
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          .@HeerJeet @DouthatNYT absence of rational basis for reaction? Monarchies long gone. Fascism never developed real intellectual foundation

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        3. Elbridge Colby‏Verified account @ElbridgeColby 24 Apr 2016
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          .@HeerJeet @DouthatNYT @JacobHeilbrunn I miss Tony Judt on this. He would be v illuminating. Man of left w real understanding of right

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        1. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 24 Apr 2016
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          @HeerJeet That wasn't my intended answer.

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