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This is an instructive essay by political theorist Corey Robin (Brooklyn College/CUNY Grad Center) that puts contemporary American conservativism and its pathologies and peculiarities in some intellectual-historical context:
It appears in the summer 2010 issue of Raritan; my thanks to the editor and to Professor Robin for permission to upload a copy here.
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