Source: Liberal Currents
by Matthew McManus
“Conservatism, and even more radical forms of right-wing thought, has often been defended with insight and even profundity. Liberals and leftists would benefit from spending more time internalizing the wisdom of the right. Nevertheless Mill, who was very familiar with intelligent right-wing contemporaries like Carlyle and Coleridge, grasped an important point that Kirk rarely acknowledged: the undeniable anti-intellectual streak that has pervaded the right down to Donald Trump declaring his love for the uneducated and JD Vance proclaiming professors are the enemy. This is a feature, not a bug, of many (though obviously not all) on the right’s worldview.” (04/13/26)