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Joshua Tait

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He’s a Key Thinker of the Radical Right, But Is He All That?

Where the rediscovery of Sam Francis goes wrong.

by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on April 11, 2025
Edward C. Banfield and What Conservatism Used to Mean

Hard thinking on difficult and uncomfortable questions about how to keep everything from falling apart.

by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on February 1, 2025
The Origins of Conservatism’s ‘Gnostic’ Meme

You can thank Eric Voegelin for the right’s clichéd catchall critique for the left.

by Joshua Tait via The Bulwark on April 12, 2024
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Conservatives’ Self-Delusion on Race

How the right created the illusion of colorblindness.

by Joshua Tait via Made By History on October 5, 2018

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William F. Buckley, Donald Trump.

The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism

Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.

by Thomas Zimmer via Democracy Americana on December 16, 2024

Left: William F. Buckley; right: Donald Trump.

The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism

Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.

by Thomas Zimmer via Democracy Americana on December 16, 2024

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