![]() ![]() Edmund Burke, scrutinizing support for the French Revolution, had seen connections with sinister “literary caballers, and intriguing philosophers, with political theologians and theological politicians.” Even in the middle of the past century, when American intellectuals on the right were publishing the books that buttressed a movement-Peter Viereck’s “Conservatism Revisited” (1949), Whittaker Chambers’s “Witness” (1952), and Russell Kirk’s “The Conservative Mind” (1953)-a shared aversion to grand philosophizing was palpable. Photo Illustration by Erik CarterĪ distrust of high theory used to be a mainstay of conservatism. A handful of Weimar émigrés left an outsize imprint on the American right. ![]()
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