El pensamiento conservador no ha desaparecido en los tiempos del presidente Obama, y su vitalidad y problemáticas están presentes en estas referencias que nos envía el colega Oscar Delgado. N de la R.

Articles and book reviews on conservatism

From FDL, a book salon on The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin.

What sets conservatives apart from authoritarians and fascists? As the term "conservative" is co-opted more and more by true reactionaries, the whole supposedly "conservative" outlook is rooting itself more and more in the past, and an increasingly distant past at that.

Can conservative intellectuals go home again? Know your gnostics: Gene Callahan on how Eric Voegelin diagnosed the neoconservatives’ disease.

From Bad Subjects, Joseph Natoli on the neoliberal/right-wing psyche.

What is a conservative? Right-leaning thinkers answer one of three questions to help define both their ideology and their challenges for the future.

The Republican Brain: Chris Mooney on why even educated conservatives deny science — and reality.

From The University Bookman, a review of Edmund Burke For Our Time: Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics by William F. Byrne;

a review of From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism by D. G. Hart;

and a review of Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America by Benjamin L. Carp. (From: Bookforum.org)