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Episode 20: Conservatism's Daddy Issues

51m · In Bed With The Right · 30 Apr 10:01

Moira and Adrian speak to political scientist Jeff Dudas about his 2017 book Raised Right: Fatherhood in Modern American Conservatism. The conversation touches on campus panics, Clarence Thomas's many father figures, and neoconservative failsons.

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