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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2208 The Godfather of Right-Wing Populism?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Government, News

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dan McCarthy, editor of the venerable Modern Age, joins me for a discussion of Willmoore Kendall's 1963 classic, The Conservative Affirmation, which has just reappeared in print with an interesting and learned foreword by Dan himself.

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Show notes for Ep. 2208

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 2,208.

0:03.2

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:07.8

Your daily dose of Liberty Education starts here.

0:11.3

The Tom Woods Show.

0:14.4

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0:18.7

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0:21.8

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0:26.4

as well as our course on how Alexander Hamilton screwed up America

0:30.7

and the history of the conservative and libertarian movements.

0:33.8

Check it out at threefreecourses.com.

0:38.0

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:39.2

Very glad to be joined once again by our friend Dan McCarthy,

0:42.7

who in addition to editing modern age, the venerable periodical,

0:48.0

and having his great spectator column and all the other things he does,

0:50.9

he is the author of very substantial forward to an old postwar conservative classic in America,

0:59.2

the conservative affirmation by Wilmore Kendall, published in a special edition,

1:03.9

Gateway Editions of Regnery, which is of course our sort of mutual friend,

1:09.5

and published with Regnery a number of times.

1:11.4

And I wanted to talk about this book with Dan,

1:13.9

because Kendall is a key figure in the history of postwar conservatism,

1:19.6

and yet for a number of reasons Dan discusses in the forward,

1:23.6

he's not maybe as well known as he might otherwise be,

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