The Tom Woods Show, episode 490.

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Welcome to the show. Today we're talking to Professor Klaus Ryn, who is a professor of politics at Catholic University. We're going to be talking about

neoconservatism, because Professor Rinn has written such extraordinary material on the

phenomenon of neoconservatism from the point of view of a conservative who is horrified by

it that I thought my audience would really, really enjoy

this and benefit from it. Professor Rinn is a professor of politics at Catholic University.

He's the author of many books, including America the Virtuous, Democracy, and the Ethical

Life. The book we're going to be talking about today,

The New Jacobinism, and others.

He is the chairman of the National Humanities Institute

and editor of the academic journal Humanitas.

His name, by the way, is spelled C-L-A-E-S and then R-Y-N.

Professor Rinn, welcome to the show.

It's a pleasure to be with you.

I have been talking about your work or quoting it one way or another for years, saying this is the way a real conservative thinks.

The trouble is, it seems like we're down to about 17 real conservatives left in the world who would even recognize what we're talking about.

Yeah, what is a real conservative?

That's the question.

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