Words Matter Library: Max Boot - Why I Left the Right

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This week we put The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, by Max Boot into the Words Matter Library. Washington Post Columnist Max Boot details his ideological journey from a “movement” conservative to a man without a party, beginning with his political coming-of-age as a young émigré from the Soviet Union, enthralled with the National Review and the conservative intellectual tradition of Russell Kirk and F. A. Hayek. Against this personal odyssey, Max simultaneously traces the evolution of modern American conservatism, jump-started by Barry Goldwater’s canonical The Conscience of a Conservative, to the rise of Trumpism and its gradual corrosion of what was once the Republican Party. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.8	Welcome to the Words Matter Library.
0:23.4	I'm Katie Barlow.
0:24.8	We are honored and pleased to be joined today by Max Boot.
0:31.8	Max is the Gene Karpatric Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations,
0:38.2	a columnist for the Washington Post and a Global Affairs Analyst for CNN.
0:43.0	Max is also the author of The Corrosion of Conservatism, Why I Left the Right.
0:48.2	Max Boot, Welcome to Words Matter.
0:50.4	I'm delighted to be here.
0:52.0	We are also joined by another distinguished scholar and thinker.
0:55.8	My guest host today is my good friend and comrade, Dr. Gordon Goldstein.
0:59.8	His academic and professional career is too voluminous to recount,
1:03.4	but Gordon is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations,
1:07.2	where he focuses on global technology, innovation and geopolitics.
1:11.6	Dr. Goldstein is also the author of one of my favorite books, Lessons in Disaster,
1:16.9	Mick George Bundy and the Path to Warren Vietnam, a study of presidential decision making.
1:22.3	It is an amazing case study on how decisions are made at the highest levels of the United States government
1:28.5	and how sometimes those decisions are horribly wrong.
1:32.1	Dr. Gordon is great to have you on Words Matter today as my wingman.
1:36.1	Wonderful to be here.
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