Corey’s central argument—that conservatives are really reactionary counter-revolutionaries working to establish a protected and powerful group over a weakened mass of others—stands up, but I felt that a lot of the earlier chapters did little to nothing to hold it up, or even relate to it clearly.

I also felt as if there was a lack of context for, especially, the earlier works, so that their ideas were just floating around without being, as they indeed were, of and about their time and authors’ positions of power.