Those are the panelists and topic for the next Robert A. Taft Club event, Monday, June 12. Paul Gottfried of Elizabethtown College and the American Conservative Union's Donald Devine have a look at whatever happened to skepticism toward government, realism, resistance to multiculturalism and political correctness (not just putting Republican spin on affirmative action [...]
Clark Stooksbury lets the ludicrous Stanley Kurtz have it. Kurtz is a prime example of how certain conservatives now display all the traits of the victim mentality conservatives once despised. They find oppression in every piece of pop-culture detritus that doesn't affirm their own worldview.
Kurtz is frequently in hysterics over a television show called [...]
The separation of powers has taken quite a battering under the Bush administration: the president's "signing statements" alter or even negate the plain meaning of laws passed by Congress; Bush attempts to employ executive-branch military tribunals instead of courts whenever possible; he doesn't bother to observe laws passed by Congress requiring executive agencies to get [...]
Sorry for the light posting at the moment: I've been finished up a review of Gordon S. Wood's Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, which despite its banal title is not your ordinary Founding Fathers-fest. If all turns out well, it should be in the next TAC. Otherwise, it's one for the [...]
One of the great minds of 20th century American conservatism died on Friday. From the LA Times obit:
Peter R. Viereck, a historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and political philosopher who was spurned by the modern conservative movement despite his central role in its birth, died May 13 at his home in South Hadley, Mass., after [...]
The Washington Post has an update on the declining fortunes of the House Republicans:
Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of a political newsletter, now has 42 Republican districts, including [Virginia Republican Thelma] Drake's, on his list of competitive races. Last September, he had 26 competitive GOP districts, and Drake's wasn't on the list. "That's a pretty [...]
The Pew Research center takes a look at Americans' political leanings and, perhaps predictably, I'm horrified. 65 percent of the public "favor government guaranteeing health insurance for all"? 86 percent of those surveyed favor raising the minimum wage, including 80 percent of libertarians? Well, that last datum suggests that there's something fundamentally [...]
General Hayden, former wiretapper in chief and now Bush's nominee to head the CIA, is used to giving orders and not used to such unmilitary institutions as a free press. In his confirmation hearings yesterday he said CIA officers "deserve not to have every action analyzed, second-guessed and criticized on the front pages of [...]
I'm not exactly George Will's biggest fan, though I give him credit for seeing sense on Iraq sooner rather than never, but his new column is refreshisingly pugnacious, and bracing, even if I have to disagree with a lot of it:
An aggressively annoying new phrase in America's political lexicon is "values voters." It is used [...]
Daniel Larison celebrates — and gives thanks for — the success of his website, Eunomia, over the past year. If you haven't been reading it, start. It's the best traditionalist conservative blog on the web. (Which might sound like damningly faint praise considering the competition, but never mind that. It's one of the best [...]