Sunday, April 12, 2020

"Anything Just so Long as You're Not a Libertarian"

"The once dominant intellectual lodestars of the US right–Friedrich Hayek, John Locke, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand and Adam Smith–are out. The ideas of Carl Schmitt, James Burnham, Michel Houellebecq and Christopher Lasch are in. Edmund Burke and Alexis de Tocqueville are barely clinging on. What happened?"

Nick Burns at the New Statesman invites readers to "Meet the new American right."

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