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Jeff Polet, Localism, Kirk, and the “Founding”
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Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 4— Jeff Polet, Localism, Kirk, and the “Founding”
In this episode...
- A member question on imaginative literature
- A conversation with political science professor Jeff Polet
Links:
- Front Porch Republic
- Russell Kirk Center
- “Did America Have a Founding?”
- Modern Age
- Patrick Deneen at the National Conservatism Conference
Books mentioned:
- The Fall, Albert Camus
- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
- Laurus, Eugene Vodolazkin
- American Awakening, Joshua Mitchell
- Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
- The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
- The Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk
- The Quest for Community, Robert Nisbet
- The Present Age, Robert Nisbet
- Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
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