Simone Weil: The French philosopher has lessons for modern conservatives.
In 2012, the political theorist Corey Robin observed in his book The Reactionary Mind that the American right was “trying to find a winning formula.” The problem was that conservatives are “cycling through all these ideas, faster and faster, and they’re running out of options.” Ten years later, we see the terrifying consequences when one of America’s two major parties, having in fact run out of ideas, risks running our democracy to ruin. Advertisement As they seek a path forward, American conservatives might consider an option they probably did not know was on offer: the writings...
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