National Conservatism Revisited

This week, Eric, Dan, and Dylan discuss Dan’s essay in the Spring 2023 issue of RELIGION & LIBERTY magazine, “National Conservatism One Year Later,” revisiting the National Conservatism movement one year after his essay on his visit to the NatCon2 conference. What, if anything, do we now understand better about the NatCon movement? Does it stand apart from traditional American conservatism, or is it slowly being subsumed by the mainstream right? And where do the post-liberals and Catholic integralists figure into this movement, if at all? Then the guys turn their attention to the expulsion of two Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee from the State House. Was this move by Tennessee Republicans wise, prudent, or even necessary? Is it in keeping with a very NatCon mentality to turn all political fights up to 11? And finally, they take a look at the ProPublica story about the hospitality benefits billionaire Harlan Crow has provided over the years to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Is there any there-there to this story? Or is the simple appearance of impropriety bad enough to warrant concern? National Conservatism One Year Later | Dan Hugger, Religion & Liberty What I Saw at the National Conservatism Conference | Dan Hugger, Religion & Liberty Subscribe to Religion & Liberty The hundred-year war for American conservatism | Acton Line Tennessee House Ousts 2 Democratic Lawmakers: What You Need to Know | New York Times Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire | ProPublica Lawmakers Revive SCOTUS Ethics Debate | The Dispatch Photo Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.