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Right-wing authoritarians don’t understand the moral case for America

By Casey Given
Published September 21, 2019 4:00am ET
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Right-wing authoritarians don’t understand the moral case for America
The conservative intelligentsia has been buzzing for months now about the ongoing debate between New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari and National Review senior writer David French. The saga began in May, when Ahmari published an essay in First Things, painting French as the poster boy for what’s wrong with the American Right today. […]

The conservative intelligentsia has been buzzing for months now about the ongoing debate between New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari and National Review senior writer David French. The saga began in May, when Ahmari published an essay in First Things, painting French as the poster boy for what’s wrong with the American Right today. In short, Ahmari blasted French’s fidelity to classical liberalism.

As Ahmari summarized:

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