A review by killedbyfluffy
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin by Corey Robin

3.0

I enjoyed this book well enough. As a series of essays, some chapters were definitely more interesting and stronger then others. There were several times I took snap shots of passages to send to a friend to discuss so it did lend itself to continued thought and debate. Towards the conclusion of the book, I felt that a lot of the generalizations that Robin's laid at the feet of conservative thought are valid for liberal thought too. I enjoyed the historical aspect of this book more than the psychological/philosophical it was attempting to portray.