Working-Class Conservatism (w/ Max Alvarez)
Know Your Enemy
English - October 07, 2019 19:31 - 1 hour - 67.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture conservatism conservative movement right wing national review william f buckley socialists ronald reagan reactionaries Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Matt and Sam talk to Max Alvarez—writer, editor, and host of Working People, an excellent podcast—about growing up working-class and conservative in a mixed race household.
Matt and Max compare experiences as we try to answer some basic but tough questions: what attracts some members of the working class to conservative politics? How do the cultural and economic aspects of conservatism interact for working class conservatives? And what can the left learn from working-class conservatism's appeal?
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Further Reading:
Max Alvarez, "Can the Working Class Speak?" Current Affairs (2018)Stuart Hall "The Toad in the Garden: Thatcherism Among the Theorists," (1988)Charlie Post's two-part essay from the early aughts in Against the Current (and Sebastian Lamb's response)Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and WalmartThomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas? (2005)Larry Bartels' review of Frank.John Jost, "Working Class Conservatism: A System Justification Perspective," (2017)Oh and please support our Patreon!