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A Review of Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind - Hungarian Conservative

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‘The claim is as follows: conservatives are indeed stupid and lack intellectual curiosity, and the progressives, be they liberals or socialists...have the intellectual firepower on their side.’

This article was originally published in Vol. 5 No. 3 of our print edition. Russell Kirk’s magnum opus, The Conservative Mind, starts with an insult to conservatives: ‘The Stupid Party’.1 Of course, this insult towards conservatives was not made by Kirk himself, but by the nineteenth-century liberal-cum-socialist John Stuart Mill. Conservatives who have been fighting in the battle of ideas have been fighting with this millstone around their necks. The claim is as follows: conservatives are indeed stupid and lack intellectual curiosity, and the progressives, be they liberals or socialists…

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