The Great Unlearning
Episode 642: The Great Unlearning
Last year, Remnant regular and AEI scholar Matt Continetti published The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism, a tome so nerdy that he and Jonah needed two full podcast episodes just to discuss the first half of it. Today, Matt returns to the program to continue working through the history of the right from the ‘80s to the present. Or, at least, that was the plan. Instead, the conversation ends up focusing on the nature of the new right, how Pat Buchanan changed conservatism, and what Donald Trump’s devotees actually want. Plus, listeners of the Commentary podcast will be delighted to find that Matt is actually allowed to speak.
Show Notes:
– The Right, now available in paperback
– Part one of Matt’s previous Remnant nerdfest…
– Lionel Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination
– Julius Krein: “I Voted for Trump. And I Sorely Regret It.”
– Christopher Lasch’s The Revolt of the Elites
– Tom Wolfe: “The Great Relearning”
– Ezra Klein: “The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism”
