Rush to anti-conservative cultural breakdown

Self-preoccuped radio talk show hosts may be destructive for both the political parties they pretend to serve and the larger culture which is among our concerns, here.

Daniel Larison writes:

It is not merely that these [radio talk] programs distract from creating middlebrow conservatism, as [John] Derbyshire argued, but that they feed into the forces that eat away at whatever remains of a common culture while also creating their own sub-cultural ghetto to which conservatives seem only too inclined to retreat. Following Lukacs’ observation about real, personal communication that I mention in the other post, it seems to me that the more conservatives define themselves in relation to these radio communications from fervent individualists the less likely they are going to be to engage in the kind of hard cultural work of building up their own communities and laying the foundations of the common culture they wish to pass on to their children.

The rest is here.