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Profiles in reaction. Conservatism and counterrevolution -- The first counterrevolutionary -- Garbage and gravitas -- Inside out -- The ex-cons -- Affirmative action baby -- Virtues of violence. A color-coded genocide -- Remembrance of empires past -- Protocols of machismo -- Potomac fever -- Easy to be hard.;"Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is 'boring, ' said the founding father of the American right. 'Devoting your life to it, ' as conservatives do, 'is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex.' With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites them? Tracing conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution, Robin argues that the right is fundamentally inspired by a hostility to emancipating the lower orders. Some conservatives endorse the free market, others oppose it. Some criticize the state, others celebrate it. Underlying these differences is the impulse to defend power and privilege against movements demanding freedom and equality. Des

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Author

Corey Robin

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190252557

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, History

Rating

3.87 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14