THE SHIPWRECKED MIND

We dont understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape toda ys political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and suffering from nostalgia for an idealized past and an apocalyptic fear that history is rushing toward catastrophe. And like the revolutionary his political engagements are motivated by highly devel...[Read more]