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Karl Hess first glimpsed political power as a speechwriter for the US senator Barry Goldwater’s failed 1964 presidential campaign. Hess found the experience deeply disenchanting, transforming this former ‘Cold Warrior’ who’d helped launch the conservative magazine National Review into an idiosyncratic political philosopher who viewed any powerful institution with intense scepticism. In Karl........

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