There is a piece to be written on the pernicious influence Gertrude Himmelfarb has had on how Brooks, Douthat & Co. understand poverty.
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Salient fact about Himmelfarb is that she's an intellectual historian, not a social historian. Interest in "idea of poverty" not the reality
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Reading Himmelfarb, you learn about how Burke, Hannah More, etc. thought about poverty -- very different than how poverty actually worked.
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I don't think Brooks, Douthat & Co. realize that Hannah More ideas about poor needing moral reform widely contested by poor themselves.
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