How the Conservative Movement Was Built
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🗓️ 19 March 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Stan Evans helped build the conservative movement by founding the American Conservative Union, the Conservative Political Action Conference, and establishing the National Journalism Center. He was, in addition, a tremendous journalist and thinker. His book, "The Theme Is Freedom," should be a conservative classic, Steven Hayward observes in his new book, "M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom."
What also made Stan Evans so very unique was his tremendous humor which he used to undermine Progressive moralizing. Hayward notes that a standard liberal critique of America was to say that any country that can land a man on the moon, can enact x progressive policy. Evans's response was "any country that can land a man on the moon can abolish the income tax." Evans once said to the consternation of liberals at Princeton that "I didn't support Nixon until after Watergate. Look, after wage and price controls, Watergate was a breath of fresh air." They were not amused, but we can be and learn from this giant of conservative journalism and institution building.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this edition of the Daily Signal Podcast. I'm your host, Richard |
| 0:10.5 | Ranch. Today we're talking with author Stephen Hayward about his new book, |
| 0:14.7 | M. Stanton Evans, conservative wit, Apostle of Freedom. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome Steve Hayward to the program today. We're going to be discussing Steve's |
| 0:36.5 | new book, M. Stanton Evans, conservative wit, Apostle of Freedom. Stephen Hayward |
| 0:43.4 | is a resident scholar at UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies. He's a visiting |
| 0:48.1 | lecturer at Berkeley Law. He's also been a distinguished visiting professor at Pepperdynes School |
| 0:53.7 | of Public Policy. He's the author of a number of highly regarded books, including two volumes on |
| 0:59.5 | the age of Reagan, and patriotism is not enough. Harry Jaffa, Walter Burns, and the arguments that |
| 1:07.3 | redefined American conservatism. And many, of course, will know Stephen from his daily blogging |
| 1:14.0 | at PowerlineBlog.com, a site that I visit every morning. Stephen, it's great to have you |
| 1:21.2 | on the program to talk about the great Stan Evans. Well, thanks Richard. It's great to be |
| 1:26.1 | joining you again. All right. So Stephen, thinking about this new book on the great journalist, |
| 1:32.3 | Stan Evans, who was Stan Evans? And what got you interested in writing about him? |
| 1:37.6 | Yeah, well, I think the two things to know about him is he was a hugely important figure in the |
| 1:42.5 | modern conservative movement. And although he passed away just seven years ago now, he's already |
| 1:47.1 | been kind of forgotten. And so that for those two reasons, I thought it was worth writing a book |
| 1:52.1 | about him, a standard old-fashioned biography from, you know, Burst to his last. And I also, |
| 1:58.0 | I knew him pretty well, not as well as many people did. But I do think it's important that |
| 2:02.6 | conservatives keep alive the memory of their heroes and teachers. And so I think it's important |
| 2:06.8 | for us to have a biography project for lots of people. So Stan Evans, legendary conservative |
| 2:14.4 | journalist, you write about his career extensively. In the book, you talk about a number of his |
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