1. Thinking a bit about Bernard Lewis & Richard Pipes, who both died in last few days. Both figures I had disagreed with on many issues but also, undeniably, genuinely learned & worth engaging with. Do they have heirs?
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4. To put it another way, I think there was a period where it was useful to read some intellectuals (say Hayek or Burnham) to try & understand the right. That's not true at all in Trump era, where you're better off watching Hannity.
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Benny Morris?
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He’s Israeli not American
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Can I be the first to make a "Jordan Peterson if you think witches live in swamps" joke?
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Was Lewis really part of “the right” ? I’m sure there are scholars of comparable learning whose whose work admire - maybe Michael Burleigh? - who are not on “the right” in the way you mean.
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I don't necessarily mean partisan right -- something broader. Certainly Lewis & Pipes embodied a kind of conservative sensibility even if not directly affiliated with movement conservatism
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Pipes was part of a group of right wing intelligentsia. Most of the people he "trained" just allied with Russia or become radical anti Muslim bigots.
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Seems like it's common knowledge that the right is intellectually bankrupt. Do you think it's important to have a robust intellectual right? If so, why?
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Not wrong.
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Robert Kagan?
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