Lessons From Past 100 Years of American Conservatism
The Daily Signal Podcast
The Daily Signal
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🗓️ 23 April 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Continetti is a journalist and historian of American conservatism. He is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He joins this Saturday Edition of the Daily Signal Podcast to discuss his new book, The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism.
Continetti covers the history of American conservatism stretching back to the 1920s and the presidencies of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. He makes a number of thought-provoking observations in the book. He notes that "I'm looking at how the intellectuals, the writers, the thinkers, the economists responded to politics, how they influence politics, how they reacted to political developments. And then I'm also looking at how the institutional Republican Party, how did it fit into this picture? What conservative ideas did it adopt? How did it begin to regain its majority after the new deal era?"
He also adds that much of conservatism is now led by the Heritage Foundation, Hillsdale College's DC Kirby Campus, and the Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life. The challenge is for these institutions to help provide policy solutions rooted in a populist conservatism that is grounded in constitutional institutions.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Saturday edition of the Daily Signal Podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Richard Reinge. |
| 0:10.7 | Today, we're talking with Matthew Contanetti about his new book, The Right, the Hundred Year |
| 0:16.3 | War for American Conservatism. |
| 0:18.9 | Matthew Contanetti is a journalist and historian. |
| 0:22.6 | Of the right, he's also a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, the founding editor |
| 0:27.1 | of the Washington-Free Beacon, and a columnist for commentary magazine. |
| 0:34.8 | Today, we're talking with Matthew Contanetti, author of the new book, The Right, the Hundred |
| 0:50.3 | Year War for American Conservatism. |
| 0:52.2 | Matthew Contanetti is a journalist and intellectual historian of American conservatism. |
| 0:58.2 | He's the founding editor of the Washington-Free Beacon. |
| 1:00.9 | He's currently a columnist for commentary magazine. |
| 1:03.9 | He's also a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, along with the author of a couple |
| 1:08.0 | of books, including The Persecution of Sarah Palin and the K Street Gang Matthew. |
| 1:14.1 | Welcome to The Daily Signal, and thank you for joining us to discuss this new book. |
| 1:19.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:20.5 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:22.6 | So, Matt, thinking about the subtitle of this book, it sparks a question, The Hundred |
| 1:28.6 | Year War for American Conservatism, that would put us, you know, back in the 1920s as |
| 1:35.0 | a basis for evaluating contemporary conservatism. |
| 1:39.1 | Why start in this decade? |
| 1:40.7 | Sure. |
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