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Podcast Episode Summary

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism, says political science professor Corey Robin, is an idea-driven praxis with a great intellectual lineage that can be traced from the 17th century all the way to the present day. But "intellectual, according to Robin, is not synonymous with "good." As he argues in his new book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin.