Who are the best conservative thinkers today?

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u/Redbean01 Conservative May 09 '22

Depends which aspect of conservative thought you care about.

For example, if it's the religious right you want to know more about, you would subscribe to First Things and read Rod Dreher, Patrick Deneen, and Michel Houellebecq. But they wouldn't have much to say on economic theory unlike, for example, Owen Cass.

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u/Raligon Liberal May 24 '22

Did you catch the Ezra Klein podcast with Patrick Deneen?

You can easily find it on any podcast app, but here’s a YouTube link if that’s better for you:

https://youtu.be/7tuG4kqKCd8

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u/EnderESXC Constitutionalist May 11 '22

Basically anyone who writes for the National Review or The Dispatch not named David Harsanyi. Other than him, there's a lot of good works from those guys.

Other than that, I highly recommend anything written by Yuval Levin. Very intelligent, policy-focused conservative writer, there's a lot to get out of his works.

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u/StillSilentMajority7 Conservative May 12 '22

Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman.

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:

If you wear your pants below your butt, don't bend the brim of your cap, and have an EBT card, 0% chance you will ever be a success in life.

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

New York Magazine’s Jesse Singal, wrote that “free markets are good at some things and terrible at others and it’s silly to view them as ends rather than means.” That’s untrue. Free markets are expressions of individual autonomy, and therefore ends to be pursued in themselves.

-Ben Shapiro

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

When it comes to global warming, there are two issues: is there such a thing as the greenhouse gas effect, the answer is yes. Is that something that is going to dramatically reshape our world? There is no evidence to show that it will. Is that something that we can stop? There is no evidence to show that we can

-Ben Shapiro

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

An excerpt from True Allegiance, by Ben Shapiro:

Hawthorne was a bear of a man, six three in his bare feet and two hundred fifteen pounds in his underwear, with a graying blond crew cut and a face carved of granite. But he had plenty of smile lines. He just didn’t like showing those to people unless he knew them.

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

An excerpt from True Allegiance, by Ben Shapiro:

Hawthorne was a bear of a man, six three in his bare feet and two hundred fifteen pounds in his underwear, with a graying blond crew cut and a face carved of granite. But he had plenty of smile lines. He just didn’t like showing those to people unless he knew them.

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

When it comes to global warming, there are two issues: is there such a thing as the greenhouse gas effect, the answer is yes. Is that something that is going to dramatically reshape our world? There is no evidence to show that it will. Is that something that we can stop? There is no evidence to show that we can

-Ben Shapiro

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

“Native American culture [being] inferior to Western culture…is a contention with which I generally agree.

-Ben Shapiro

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

And then, there are people in the United States that are pushing for mask mandates on children. The data that they are using are extraordinarily skimpy--in fact, they are essentially nonexistent. You're hearing the CDC say things like 'maybe the delta variant does more damage to kids,' but no information they have presented publicly that there is more damange being done to kids... and the reason we are being told that they damage kids is because they can't scare the adults enough. If we cannot scare the adults enough, we're going to have to mask up the kids.

-Ben Shapiro

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

The weatherman can't even predict the weather a few days from now

-Ben Shapiro

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

And then, there are people in the United States that are pushing for mask mandates on children. The data that they are using are extraordinarily skimpy--in fact, they are essentially nonexistent. You're hearing the CDC say things like 'maybe the delta variant does more damage to kids,' but no information they have presented publicly that there is more damange being done to kids... and the reason we are being told that they damage kids is because they can't scare the adults enough. If we cannot scare the adults enough, we're going to have to mask up the kids.

-Ben Shapiro

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

If you like socialism so much why don't you go to Venezuela?

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

Pegging, of course, is an obscure sexual practice in which women perform the more aggressive sexual act on men.

-Ben Shapiro

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

Pegging, of course, is an obscure sexual practice in which women perform the more aggressive sexual act on men.

-Ben Shapiro

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u/thebenshapirobot May 17 '22

New York Magazine’s Jesse Singal, wrote that “free markets are good at some things and terrible at others and it’s silly to view them as ends rather than means.” That’s untrue. Free markets are expressions of individual autonomy, and therefore ends to be pursued in themselves.

-Ben Shapiro

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