Posted on 06/29/2022 6:43:50 AM PDT by PoliticallyShort
One reason the genuine right considers National Review a joke is that the magazine long ago lost the ability to distinguish between friends and enemies. NR spills considerable ink cozying up to the left and trying to show that they are not like those unacceptable bad conservatives but are instead harmless and reliable good guys. It attacks and backstabs those who ostensibly are, or should be, its friends and sucks up to its supposed enemies. Or perhaps NR is simply lying to its readers—and donors—and is playing Schmittian politics after all, but having switched sides? I couldn’t say, but that explanation fits the observable facts.
National Review presents itself as the flagship publication of American conservatism, but then goes around calling conservatives it doesn’t like Nazis. Those who call you Nazis are not your friends but your enemies. No one who is not a fool takes advice from his enemies, or assumes that said advice is well intentioned.
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Clever phrase...stealing.
NR is to conservatism what Jesuits are to catholicism.
Pretentious pseudo-intellectuals who look down at their lessers.
Great article!
Intellectual clarity. So rare and so precious.
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Today?
I ignore it.
I have always thought that there were far greater similarities between Strauss and Heidegger than most Straussians think. Perhaps Schmitt also, but I don't know his work.
To understand an author as he understood himself means that you define his thought by setting limits to what is inside it and what is outside it. In doing so, the outside is what is unthought in the thinker's teaching. So your task is also to think about that, which is what Heidegger always focused on, which is why he sometimes reduced others to a parody.
It is unfortunate that NR has reduced itself (or revealed itself) as just another house organ of the establishment, grifting, pretend-right. It's role of describing the intellectual foundations for American conservatism seems to have been taken over by Claremont (the "West Coast" Straussians) and Hillsdale.
It is weird how virtually everyone there, with the possible exception of McCarthy, is a Never Trumper. Victor Davis Hanson was an exception but he got out of there. How does that happen? The only obvious explanation is group think.
NR still exists?
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