Is the New Right Just the Old Left?
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“A collection of essays by New Right thinkers has a lot to say about what is wrong with the ‘establishment Right’….their solutions ironically reflect a neglect of constitutional order that got us in our current state to begin with.” - Acton
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Russell Kirk’s “The Conservative Mind” for the Rising Generation
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“Seventy years after the publication of The Conservative Mind, Kirk can still speak to what he called the ‘rising generation’ — showing young people an appealing vision of conservatism, one that drinks deeply from the imaginative and humane wellspring of American and Western civilization.” - Imaginative Conservative
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Can We Unlearn Race?
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“the numbers still tell an overwhelmingly one-sided story: white Protestants consistently dwarf every other racial and religious demographic in the GOP electorate…. conservatives and racial issues are oil and water—unmixable and with a highly flammable element.” - Acton
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Ryan Burge Study: Most Pro-lifers Are Not Economic Conservatives
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“Among the people who wanted a total ban on abortion… 67% favor debt free college. 77% favor paid maternity leave. 67% favor raising the minimum wage to $15/hour.” - Ryan Burge
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American Conservative Union chair faces new allegations of sexual misconduct as vice chair steps down
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“ACU is best known as the driving force behind CPAC, an annual gathering of conservative activists where Republican politicians and presidential hopefuls have spoken over the last 50 years.” - CPost
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The Puzzle of Political Virtue
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“George Carey’s 1984 collection Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate still speaks to our moment. Re-reading those essays now impresses on the reader the overlap between the libertarian and conservative positions.” - L&L
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Faith-Based Poverty Work
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“Bruce Pilbeam said the phrase ‘compassionate conservatism’ was mostly dead ‘thanks to its association with an administration that lost popularity in its second term even among conservatives.’ He concluded, though, that the concept at local levels will have an ‘enduring legacy.’ I agree.” - Acton
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Is the New Right Fascist?
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“Starting with the emergence of the ‘Alt-Right’ during the 2010s, a different group of political right-wing ideologues have surfaced to defend very different principles from those of traditional American conservatism.” - Acton
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“God has spoken. We have His word. We cannot twist it to serve our own purposes regardless of our political persuasion.”
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“We must not conflate biblical Christianity and political conservativism. They are not the same thing. However, we also cannot deny biblical Christianity because of some overlap that it might have with many biblical morals that political conservatism also espouses.” - P&D
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