Brooks never considers, even for a second, that a defining feature of American conservatism has been anti-intellectualism, which is the proximate cause for the lack of conservatives in academia. The entire project sneers at the liberal intelligentsia as egghead losers.
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Osita Nwanevu
I wonder what it'd take conservatives doing for people to stop writing these "to be sure" paragraphs. When will it be time to consider the possibility that the ideas of American conservatives have been stupid and evil and that the left was right not to take them seriously? What more has to happen?
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