TY - BOOK ID - 30685820 TI - The reactionary mind : conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin PY - 2011 SN - 0190252553 1283232251 9786613232250 019979393X 9780199793938 9781283232258 9780199793747 0199793743 9780190252557 6613232254 0199911886 9780199911882 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Conservatism KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30685820 AB - Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is ""boring,"" said the founding father of the American right. ""Devoting your life to it,"" as conservatives do, ""is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex."" With this unlikely conversation began Robin's decade-long foray into the conservative mind. What is conservatism, and what's truly at stake for its proponents? If capitalism bores them, what excites them? Tracing conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution, Robin argues that the right is fundamentally in ER -