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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence,

Rhode Island. What a moment to read or to reread, the reactionary mind, conservatism from

Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, political scientist Corey Robbins' 2011 collection of essays.

This is especially true if you need to disabuse friends and family of the notion that

Trump is some historic degradation of conservatism's good name, rather than a malignant, nasty

outgrowth of a long history of violent reaction against left movements for equality.

Robin offers an incisive and beautifully written guide that is both heavily theoretical and,

at least as far as such things go, quite accessible.

Good news. Today, Corey Robin is my guest.

Robin is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

We'll take a look back at the reactionary mind and discuss how its pre-Trumpian insights

apply to a political moment that is quite different, but upon closer inspection, still all too

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