1. Re @RuleandRuin’s grumpy piece on the historiography of conservatism (politico.com/magazine/story…), @TomSugrue offers the full-throated defense of the discipline’s honor:

https://twitter.com/TomSugrue/status/1038904179488632837

. I have a more specific point, undeniably motivated by some “presentist” concerns. 2. Does the rise-of-the-right lit really “take the extreme right as representative of conservatism,” as Kabaservice charges? This work, first motivated by dissatisfaction w/ how postwar libs like Bell & Hofstadter pathologized the right, if anything went too far the other way.