26 - Matt McManus - Conservatism from Burke to Ben Shapiro

2:24 How Matt became interested in the history of conservative thought
4:00 What characterises a classic conservative tradition
4:27 Facts do care about your feelings: the conservative tradition and the role of emotion
8:46 How living in postmodernity affects conservative thought
17:35 Changes in conservative thought resulting from greater globalisation and economic insecurity
17:40 Conservative identity politics
24:40 Conservative thought and the question of meaning
27:04 The right’s posturing versus the left’s sincerity
32:32 The right’s pessimism, the left’s optimism
36:24 Trump
38:18 Conservative family values and the decline in the welfare state
40:51 The far right & left-wing economic politics
46:56 Neoliberalism
49:31 Defeating the right

Matt McManus is the author of Immorality and the Immortal Conservative (2016) and of the forthcoming books Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law; Essays on our Hugely Tremendous Times and The Rise and Emergence of the Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Right-Wing Populism.

His many essays for Areo can be found here:
https://areomagazine.com/author/mattmcmanus303/

You can also follow Matt on Twitter: @MattPolProf

Other references:
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) and Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Stephen Harper, Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption (2018)

Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument (2014)

Ben Burgis, Give them an Argument: Logic for the Left (forthcoming, 31 May, 2019)