26 - Matt McManus - Conservatism from Burke to Ben Shapiro

2:24 How Matt became interested in the history of conservative thought 4:00 What characterises a classic conservative tradition 4:27 Facts do care about your feelings: the conservative tradition and the role of emotion 8:46 How living in postmodernity affects conservative thought 17:35 Changes in conservative thought resulting from greater globalisation and economic insecurity 17:40 Conservative identity politics 24:40 Conservative thought and the question of meaning 27:04 The right’s posturing versus the left’s sincerity 32:32 The right’s pessimism, the left’s optimism 36:24 Trump 38:18 Conservative family values and the decline in the welfare state 40:51 The far right & left-wing economic politics 46:56 Neoliberalism 49:31 Defeating the right Matt McManus is the author of Immorality and the Immortal Conservative (2016) and of the forthcoming books Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law; Essays on our Hugely Tremendous Times and The Rise and Emergence of the Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Right-Wing Populism. His many essays for Areo can be found here: https://areomagazine.com/author/mattmcmanus303/ You can also follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf Other references: Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Stephen Harper, Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption (2018) Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument (2014) Ben Burgis, Give them an Argument: Logic for the Left (forthcoming, 31 May, 2019)