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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2. Say your worst about these figures -- Lewis' Orientalism & downplaying of Armenian genocide, Pipes' Team B threat inflation & over-reaction to revisionists -- and you still had men who wrote deep, challenging, pathbreaking books.
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3. It's hard to think of figures of comparable learning among contemporary right -- or am I wrong?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
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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Replying to @HeerJeet
Yes. I agree. I think there are such scholars. Issue may be how recognized they are among the movement.
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Yeah, I feel like classic movement conservatism of 1945-2008 had room for these figures. Not sure any more.
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