Table of Contents
Acknowledgements x
Preface: The Five Features of Post-Modern Conservatism 1
Part I The Intellectual Origins of Post-Modern Conservatism 11
What is the Post-Modern Epoch? 13
Post-Modern Conservatism-Or How the Right Became What It Hated 20
What is Post-Modern Conservatism? 23
The Rise and Emergence of Post-Modern Conservatism 27
The Decline of Conservatism and the Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism 36
Right Wing Critiques of Identity Politics and Post-Modern Culture 43
Post-Modern Conservatism? Yes It's A Thing (A Reply to Andrew Urban) 50
Part II Post-Modern Conservatism and Post-Modern Culture 53
Politics as Entertainment-Partisanship in Post-Modern Culture 55
Trump and the Age of Bullshit-The Roots of a Knowledge Crisis 61
Benjamin, Aesthetics, and the Political Practices of the Alt-Right Erik Tate 64
Carl Schmitt, Liberalism, and Post-Modern Conservatism 74
Paranoia and the Post-Modern Right Dylan Dejong 81
Politics as a Battle Against Nihilism-Why Conservatives Can't Legislate Their Way Past Meaninglessness 85
The Problem With Identity Politics 93
Why History Restarted-The Strange Warning of Francis Fukuyama and the Emergence of Post-Modern Conservatism 96
On American Violence and Alienation 104
The Culture War Is Not Taking Place-On The Technological Contingency of Post-Modern Conservatism Dylan Dejong 108
Trumpism and Loneliness-The Rise of Vulgar Authoritarianism 113
Conservatism in the Age of Twitter 119
Post-Modern Politics and Post-Modern Conservatism Erik Tate Dylan Dejong 122
Part III Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Post-Modern Culture 129
Two Pills, One Cup: Late Capitalism and the Rise of Neo-Masculinity Conrad Bongard Hamilton 131
Neoliberalism, Technology, and the Creation of Post-Modern Culture 144
Post-Modern Conservatism and Capitalism 149
Trump's Trade War Vanities- Post-Modern Populism and the Economy 156
Why The Right Wing Fight Against Nihilism is Meaningless- Post-Modern Conservatism as a Capitalism Product 159
Part IV Right Wing Reponses to Post-Modern Culture 165
All Good Things Must Come to An End-An Overview of "Why Liberalism Failed" 167
Jordan Peterson and Conservative Critiques of Modernity 175
A Critique of Jordan Peterson Part I 182
A Critique of Jordan Peterson Part II 190
On Marxism, Post-Modernism, and "Cultural Marxism" 198
Hilary's America, Bowling For Columbine and Post-Modern Conservative Cinema Aesthetics David Hollands 205
No Future? Think Again!: The Peterson Phenomenon, Capitalist Realism, and the Idea of Communism Borna Radnik 214
