Know Your Enemy18 Aug 2022

TEASER: Blake Masters + Claremont

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Matt and Sam bring you the latest from the “caesarist” wing of the conservative movement, discussing two recent and related articles in the New York Times. The first: Sam’s profile of Arizona GOP senate nominee Blake Masters, who, like J.D. Vance, is bankrolled by his former employer and mentor, the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. And second: an in-depth look at the Claremont Institute by Elizabeth Zerofsky, whose excellent reporting gives the boys an opportunity to refine their thoughts on the West Coast Straussian legacy of Harry Jaffa.

It’s KYE classico. Enjoy.

Cited:

Adler-Bell, “The Violent Fantasies of Blake Masters,” NYTimes, Aug 3, 2022.

Adler-Bell, “The Radical Young Intellectuals Who Want to Take Over the American Right,” The New Republic, Dec 2, 2021.

Elizabeth Zerofsky, “How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right,” NYTimes Magazine, Aug 3, 2022.

Marc Fisher & Isaac Stanley-Becker, “The Claremont Institute triumphed in the Trump years. Then came Jan. 6.” Washington Post, Jul 30, 2022.

Glenn Ellmers, “‘Conservatism’ is no Longer Enough,” The American Mind, Mar 24, 2021.

Michael Anton, “Are the Kids Al(t)right?” Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2019

Harry V. Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided, U Chicago Press, 1982.

Harry V. Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War, Roman & Littlefield, 2000.

David Tucker "Why Did Harry Jaffa Change His Mind?" Law and Liberty, Jul 3, 2019.

For more on Claremont/Jaffa/Strauss:

KYE: "Midnight in the Garden of American Heroes" Feb 2021.

KYE: The Long Farewell to Majority Rule (w/ Joshua Tait), May 2021.

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