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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2. One really subtle problem is that
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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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@HeerJeet @DouthatNYT Comedy is full of reactionaries today: some out of the closet (Tom Wolfe, Mike Judge), many more still in it.
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