A review of “The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism” by Matthew Continetti. A master at synthesizing information is one way to describe Matthew Continetti’s 100-year history of conservatism. In the weeds and details of the conservative movement is where his account shines. Overall, despite his joyous recollections of the glory days of mid-2000s neoconservatism, the account...
Political conservatism, say its critics, is less a rational movement to shape the future than an irrational impulse to flee the present. Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. famously called it “the politics of nostalgia.” In reality, the temptation to romanticize the past is evident across the ideological spectrum. Politicians, activists, and intellectuals often wax nostalgic about...
RALEIGH — Matthew Continetti, associate editor of the Weekly Standard, recently delivered a Headliner lecture to the John Locke Foundation discussing his book The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine. He also discussed the book with Carolina Journal associate editor Mitch Kokai. (Go to http://carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)
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