Summary: <p>Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Matthew Continetti of the American Enterprise Institute and the <em>Washington Free Beacon</em> to discuss his new book, <em>The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism</em>. They discuss American conservatism’s evolution from the Progressive era through the present, the tensions between conservatism and right-wing populism, and where conservatism is headed in the future.</p> <p><strong>Get the book here:</strong> <a href="https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/matthew-continetti/the-right/9781541600522/">https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/matthew-continetti/the-right/9781541600522/</a></p> <p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p> <p>American Enterprise Institute: “The 100-year war for American conservatism: A book event with Matthew Continetti, Yuval Levin, and Paul Ryan” (VIDEO)<br> <a href="https://www.aei.org/events/the-100-year-war-for-american-conservatism-a-book-event-with-matthew-continetti-yuval-levin-and-paul-ryan/">https://www.aei.org/events/the-100-year-war-for-american-conservatism-a-book-event-with-matthew-continetti-yuval-levin-and-paul-ryan/</a></p> <p><em>City Journal</em>: Theodore Kupfer – “The Right’s Forever War”<br> <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-the-right--the-hundred-year-war-for-american-conservatism">https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-the-right--the-hundred-year-war-for-american-conservatism</a></p> <p><em>Commentary</em>: Matthew Continetti – “Is There a Right Left?”<br> <a href="https://www.commentary.org/articles/matthew-continetti/conservative-factionalism/">https://www.commentary.org/articles/matthew-continetti/conservative-factionalism/</a></p> <p>C-SPAN: “Q&A with Matthew Continetti” (VIDEO)<br> <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?519554-1/qa-matthew-continetti">https://www.c-span.org/video/?519554-1/qa-matthew-continetti</a></p> <p><em>The Daily Beast</em>: Matt Lewis – “What We Keep Getting Wrong About the Right”<br> <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-we-keep-getting-wrong-about-the-right?ref=scroll">https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-we-keep-getting-wrong-about-the-right?ref=scroll</a></p> <p><em>Law & Liberty</em>: George Hawley – “Surveying the American Right”<br> <a href="https://lawliberty.org/book-review/surveying-the-american-right/">https://lawliberty.org/book-review/surveying-the-american-right/</a></p> <p><em>National Review</em>: Matthew Continetti – “How the Right Misunderstands Its History”<br> <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/05/16/how-the-right-misunderstands-its-history/">https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/05/16/how-the-right-misunderstands-its-history/</a></p> <p><em>National Review</em>: Ben Sasse – “Reminding the Right”<br> <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/05/02/reminding-the-right/">https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/05/02/reminding-the-right/</a></p> <p><em>The New York Times</em>: Jonathan Rauch – “The Strange History of American Conservatism”<br> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/books/review/matthew-continetti-the-right.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/books/review/matthew-continetti-the-right.html</a></p> <p><em>The Spectator World</em>: Matthew Continetti – “Revenge of the populists”<br> <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/revenge-of-the-populists-populism/">https://spectatorworld.com/topic/revenge-of-the-populists-populism/</a></p> <p><em>The Wall Street Journal</em>: Matthew Continetti – “The Return of the Old American Right”<br> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-return-of-the-old-american-right-11649430434">https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-return-of-the-old-american-right-11649430434</a></p> <p><em>The Wall Street Journal</em>: Barton Swaim – “Grumbles Left and Right: Two Books on the Past and Future of Conservatism”<br> <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/grumbles-left-and-right-review-two-books-on-the-past-and-future-of-conservatism-11649430043">https://www.wsj.com/articles/grumbles-left-and-right-review-two-books-on-the-past-and-future-of-conservatism-11649430043</a></p> <p><em>The Washington Post</em>: Carlos Lozada – “How insiders and true believers frame political history”<br> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/08/democrats-conservatives-history/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/08/democrats-conservatives-history/</a></p>
