This book offers a rare opportunity to read about how a scholar's
teaching informs his research, in this case an examination of the
nature of American conservatism. It is based on an
interdisciplinary senior seminar Lyons taught in Spring 2006. His
teaching log, including student comments from an electronic
conferencing system, gives a vivid sense of the daily frustrations
and triumphs. Lyons reflects on some of the most difficult issues
in higher education today, such as how to handle racism and
political passions in the classroom, as well as how a teacher
presents his own political convictions.
Lyons begins with the premise that most universities have been
negligent in helping undergraduates understand a movement that has
shaped the political landscape for half a century. In addition, in
a series of essays that frame the teaching log, he makes the case
that conservatives have too often failed to adhere to basic,
Burkean principles, and that the best of conservatism has often
appeared as a form of liberalism from thinkers such as Hannah
Arendt, Reinhold Niebuhr, and George Kennan. The essays also cover
the history of conservatism, conservative use of the city-on-a-hill
metaphor, and an examination of how the promise of Camelot
sophistication was subverted by a resurgence of right-wing
populism.
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