Wrong About the Right
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin
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Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College. He is of the progressive-intellectual tendency. He runs a wordy blog, where he takes issue with others of the same kidney: Ezra Klein, Susan Faludi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jonathan Chait, and such — earnest liberals picking thousand-word nits over each other's positions on fine points of policy. Sample blog posts: "That Old Centrist Magic: Jonathan Stein Responds to Jonathan Chait" (1788 words), "The Way We Weren't: My Response to Yglesias' Response to My Response to His Response to My Response" (1660 words, and one of a series, as you can tell), "The Mile-High Club: What the Right Really Thinks About Sex" (2,071 words).
These are the kinds of people who believe that American workers are cruelly deprived of labor union representation by scheming bosses (monocles, tail coats, top hats), that asking voters to identify themselves at the polling station is a sinister plot to deprive poor people of the franchise, that conservatives are sexually repressed, that Christians are stupid, and that it is possible to have a functioning society in which nobody is subordinate to anybody else.
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[Complete article in the November issue of The American Conservative]