The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
Written by Corey Robin
Narrated by Mike Chamberlain
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Corey Robin
Corey Robin is the author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin and Fear: The History of a Political Idea. He teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Robin’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, the London Review of Books, and The Nation, among other publications, and has been translated into eleven languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Reviews for The Reactionary Mind
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic. The Ayn Rand roast would be enough but there’s so much more!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Didn't like very much. One-sided one-track analysis. I did like chapter 9, about the use of "national security" to justify just about anything.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5File this under "not what I was expecting," rather than being actively bad. I'd expected theory and deep history. Instead, I got journalism and zingers. The zingers are good (see page 173 on Ayn Rand), but the lumping together is very unconvincing: Hobbes and Burke are both meant to be conservatives of the same kind. Nietzsche's followers, too. They all love violence, which is 'proved' by a reading of Burke's essay on the sublime, written eight years before he took a political position as a whig, and decades before he wrote against the French revolution.
The best pieces here are exploratory and theoretical (the first two), or about Robin's contemporaries (Scalia, Trump, maybe the Goldwater one). The pieces in between, on various thinkers, sag badly. It's all well written, and Robin is on the side of the angels, but I think I'd hyped this up to myself, and it just doesn't fullfil that hype. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I'm putting down a lot of books these days--only got about 40 pages in. Reductionist and unsatisfying.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A loose collection of essays describing the origins and future trajectories of current conservatism. Describes thinkers with worthy praise and demagogues with fiery condemnation. The part on Ayn Rand is especially critical.