What is Conservatism? with Daniel McCarthy
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Several months ago, Daniel McCarthy—editor of Modern Age and Editor-at-Large of The American Conservative—published an essay in First Things entitled “The Right Right.” McCarthy’s essay was a review of Yoram Hazony’s Conservatism: A Rediscovery and Matthew Continetti’s The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism. In this episode of LBE, McCarthy talks about what was commendable in both books, and where both works can be fairly critiqued. Kevin asks Daniel about his review, about Willmoore Kendall’s populist conservatism, and how to reaffirm the importance of Christianity as “public truth” in America.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro and Sponsor
1:53 Guest: Daniel McCarthy
4:29 What is a Conservative?
9:17 Populism: Plebiscites and Demagogues
38:39 A Conservatism for Today
53:33 Yoram Hazony Critique
1:01:52 Parallel Developments in Evangelicalism
1:09:12 Avant-Garde Conservatism
Books:
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Life and Books and Everything. |
| 0:16.0 | Good to have you back with us. |
| 0:18.0 | My name is Kevin DeYoung. |
| 0:20.0 | And coming to the end of this fall season, this episode, |
| 0:25.1 | one more, and then I'll be taking a break for about a month or so over Christmas and into January, |
| 0:31.0 | and in the process of lining up another wonderful season, hopefully, of guests and conversation on life and books and everything. |
| 0:41.0 | I want to thank our sponsor, Crossway Books. |
| 0:45.3 | And just so you know, Crossway, they give me which book they want me to mention at the beginning of the program. |
| 0:56.0 | So I didn't choose this, |
| 1:01.0 | but this one, they said, can you talk about the biggest story Bible storybook, which happens to be written by me and illustrated by Don Clark. So if you haven't seen this, I encourage you, |
| 1:08.1 | the illustrations are amazing. It would be a great gift for Christmas. It's 104 stories from the Bible, 52 from the Old Testament, 52 from the New Testament that I wrote, trying to connect the whole big story of Jesus, death and resurrection, crushing the serpent, and try to tell it in a way that is accessible. |
| 1:31.0 | I guess you would say maybe children ages 6 through 12 or thereabouts, a little bit older. |
| 1:36.8 | But hopefully, like all good kids' books, adults will learn something too. |
| 1:40.6 | So go ahead and you can go to crossway.org slash plus to find out how you can get |
| 1:46.2 | 30% off with a crossway plus account or find it wherever good books are sold. My guest this morning, |
| 1:56.7 | when we're recording anyways, this's morning, is Daniel McCarthy. |
| 2:01.9 | Daniel and I have just met now formally face-to-face over Squadcast for the first time after |
| 2:08.0 | exchanging a few emails. |
| 2:09.4 | But I read a review of his, which we'll get into in just a moment, months ago, and then |
| 2:15.4 | it took this long to set up this conversation. |
| 2:17.9 | Daniel is the editor of Modern Age, a conservative review, editor at large of the American |
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