The mag’s 2006 election statement, endorsement, whatever you want to call it, plus material from our Nov. 6 issue — including Jim Antle on the year of the Black Republican and Jesse Walker on Timothy Leary’s long, strange trip from Harvard to the Weathermen to … National Review?
First the Cards win the World Series and now St. Louis is ranked the most dangerous city in America. Detroit, once again, is #2.
Gene Callahan consults Eric Voegelin for insight into the Bush administration and its ideological supporters:
Since the Gnostic is, like the Blues Brothers, “on a mission from [...]
Good profile (from a few years back) of the historian Lee Congdon in the James Madison University Magazine. Congdon meanwhile profiles George Kennan in the forthcoming issue of The American Conservative — he has a book on Kennan on the way, too.
Here’s Congdon’s unabashedly intelletualist defense of baseball:
“Baseball [...]
The American Conservative is in the market for an assistant editor. Must be broadly sympathetic to the magazine’s positions and conversant with the world of ideas. Excellent literary and journalist skills are essential.
If that sounds like you, send an email to our executive editor, Kara Hopkins, at kara@amconmag.com. Include your resume and us know [...]
over at 2Blowhards, with some of the best stuff saved for last. Like this:
2B: Can you tell me some good things about the following words, with which many people have bad associations: Anarchy. Reactionary. Isolationism.
BK: Anarchy is the absence of government coercion. It implies nothing about one’s religious or social views; indeed, the most convincing [...]
The Times runs an excerpt of Tom Bower’s tabloid take on the life of Conrad Black. There’s pathos:
“Do you think you can get a group of people together if the need arises,” he asked one billionaire, “and get me some funds secured against my property?” “How much do you want from everyone, Conrad?” asked the [...]
The fatal flaw of Wilsonianism, with its endemic and epidemic political righteousness, its insistence upon trying all governments and other institutions by the hopeless criteria of Fourteen Points or Four Freedoms, or some equally Jacobinist nonsense, is that it can only erode, weaken, or destroy existing structures. It cannot, by its nature, build new ones–not [...]
is the title of my article in the Nov. 6 issue of The American Conservative, which should be hitting bookstores and subscribers’ mailboxes within a week or so. An unfortunate production error caused the last two words of the piece to be clipped off, which is bound to lead to some confusion. It’s also on-line, [...]
Over at 2Blowhards. Highly recommended.