3. Liberalism, classical & modern, is ameliorative in intent but pessimistic about human virtue & perfectibility, hence belief in process
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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
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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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7. In early 20th century there existed large pantheon of reactionary thinkers: Heidegger, Schmitt, Eliot, Kipling, Yeats, Pound, Maurras etc
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8. The great reactionaries seem to have disappeared. There aren't many counterparts to Heidegger or Eliot.
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9. As against Heidegger & Eliot, what we have today are think tank conservatives, who are essentially just right-wing liberals.
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10. Where have the Heideggers & Eliots gone? Good question but But Douthat's answer (chased out of academia by liberals) not sufficient
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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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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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13. A Heidegger or an Ezra Pound could provide intellectual gloss to movements that still had some pretence to intellectual ambition.
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14. Far right movements now more purely populist & don't seek intellectual justification. Mussolini cultivated Pound. Trump mocks eggheads
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