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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Before There Was Fox News

Helen Rittelmeyer looks back to the origins of lowbrow conservatism, surveying the “pamphleteers, satirists, and hacks” who took up Edmund Burke’s critique of the French Revolution and its defenders, like Thomas Paine, in the 1790s: [A]nother lawyer thought that it would be better to answer Paine than to muzzle him. This was John Reeves, an […]

An interesting read via The Dish


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