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Sunday, January 22, 2006

What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?

I just revisited this short and breathtakingly clearheaded piece from 2004 by Phil Agre, a professor at UCLA to whom I am also indebted for his writings on privacy and digital media. I recommend it to anybody who hasn't already read it. Conservatism, quite simply, as always and ineradicably a repudiation of democracy and a pining after aristocracy.

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