Conservative Conversations with ISI
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Conservative Conversations with ISI
McKay Stangler on Richard Weaver, the Southern Agrarians, and the Politics of Language
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute
In this episode:
- McKay Stangler, ISI’s Director of Foundation Relations, joins the podcast to discuss Richard Weaver, one of the luminary figures of the early conservative movement
- a crash course in the themes of the southern agrarian tradition: practice, place, and solidarity
- how to recover a sense of the shared use of language, and the social solidarity that accompanies it
Texts Mentioned:
- Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
- Visions of Order by Richard Weaver
- Boomers by Helen Andrews
- After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
- “Up from Liberalism” by Richard Weaver
- “House Divided Speech” by Abraham Lincoln
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