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J_William_Ryan

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2. "conservative intellectual": a true oxymoron.

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat Apr 18, 2026, 08:45 AM

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Conservativism is anti-intellectual, hostile to critical thinking, facts, and the truth.

The notion that there was some sort of conservative publishing ‘golden age’ is nonsense of course – whether politics for piety, conservative literature has long been wrongheaded trash.

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