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What a moment to read or to reread the reactionary mind,

conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin,

political scientist Corey Robbins 2011 collection of essays.

This is especially true if you need to disabuse friends and family of the notion that Trump is

some historic degradation of conservatism's good name. Rather than a malignant nasty outgrowth of a long history

of violent reaction against left movements for equality.

Robin offers an incisive and beautifully written guide that is both heavily theoretical and, at least as far as such things go, quite accessible.

Good news. Today, Quarry Robin is my guest. Robin is a professor of political science at

Brooklyn College and the Cuny Graduate Center. We'll take a look back at the

reactionary mind and discuss how its pre-Trumpian insights apply to a political moment that is quite different,

but, upon closer inspection, still all too familiar.

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