116. The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism with Matthew Continetti, Part 2

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

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🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In the second part of a two-part conversation, Sharon continues her talk with journalist and author Matthew Continetti about the evolving history of conservatism over the past one hundred years. They pick up with some of the most important conservative thinkers in the second half of the 20th century, like founder of The National Review, William F. Buckley, the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek, and American economist Milton Friedman. They also touch on the inner turmoil of the Democratic Party and how it helped usher in a “law and order” Nixon presidency, as well as topics like race, movement conservatism, and abortion.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome, welcome back to a fascinating conversation with author Matthew
0:06.7	Cottonetti.
0:07.7	Last time we talked about his new book The Right, the Hundred Year War for American Conservant
0:12.6	Hism, and I just could not fit it all into one episode.
0:16.6	There's so much good stuff for all Americans to learn about in this book.
0:22.9	So we're going to pick up from about the 1960s and move forward into today.
0:29.0	So let's start in.
0:30.6	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Sesso Podcast.
0:36.8	Thank you so much for coming back for a second episode.
0:39.6	I'm chatting today with Matthew Cottonetti who is the author of a book called The Right,
0:44.4	which is tracing the history of American conservatism throughout the last 100 years.
0:52.2	This is the second episode we're discussing this topic with him because there is so much
0:56.9	material and I know people are very interested in it.
0:59.7	If you are fascinated by this topic, you can list to our previous episode, which really
1:03.6	traces the growth of conservatism in America from the 1920s through the end of the 1950s.
1:10.3	Thank you so much for doing this.
1:11.4	Thanks for humoring me and coming back for a second episode.
1:14.8	I'm happy to be here, Sharon.
1:16.3	Thank you for having me anytime.
1:18.7	So let's pick up with a couple of characters that I feel like Americans really need to know
1:24.4	more about. We focus a lot on some famous senators.
1:28.1	We focus a lot on presidents and rightfully so they're very impactful.
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