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Dan McCarthy on Willmoore Kendall, Public Orthodoxy and Majoritarianism, and Nationalist Populism
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In This Episode:
- Dan McCarthy returns to the podcast to discuss Willmoore Kendall’s The Conservative Affirmation
- what majoritarianism and “the social contract” in the American tradition really means for today’s politics
- how Kendall interpreted John Locke and its relation to the American Founding
Texts Mentioned:
- The Conservative Affirmation by Willmoore Kendall
- The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George Nash
- The Dilemmas of American Conservatism, edited by Kenneth Deutsch
- What is Political Philosophy? by Leo Strauss
- Heaven Can Indeed Fall by Christopher Owen
- John Locke and the Doctrine of Majority Rule by Willmoore Kendall
- Tucker Carlson interview clip
- The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition by Willmoore Kendall
- The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
- Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Government of Poland by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Modern Age
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