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the Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other. My name is Alex Doherty and today my guest is

Corey Robin. We'll be talking about the history of conservative thought,

the significance of Donald Trump's presidency,

and in the extended version of today's episode,

we also chat about Ein Rann's contribution to conservatism

and the reasons for her immense popularity in the United States.

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the Patreon page at patreon.com forward slash poll theory other. Corry Robin is a professor of

political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

He's the author of The Reactionary Mind, Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump,

which served as the focus of our discussion, and also of fear, the history of a political idea.

His essays and reviews have appeared in many outlets, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's, The New Republic, and the London Review of Books.

One of the things in the book that Europe pains to point out is that there's this notion which seems particularly common in the US that conservatism was once a sort of noble, measured political

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