Are Conservatives the New Dissidents?

When the ruling class started targeting law-and-order Americans, it was a sign the country was undergoing a profound shift. And now according to author Glenn Ellmers, it’s time for conservatives to rethink their place in U.S. society.

In this provocative episode of Over the Target, Lee Smith speaks with Claremont Fellow Glenn Ellmers about his new book “The Narrow Passage” and how the right can fight the current crisis.

3:00 The spiritual crisis of the West
3:10 Does Plato help us understand what’s happening in America?
10:00 Aristotle: the end of politics is the good life
12:00 Foucault: how power structures work
19:30 Post-modernism is by definition irrational
30:00 Philosophy has always been dangerous to politics
33:00 The right has gone from pro-establishment to anti-establishment