Cory Robin has some curious ideas about conservatism — apparently it’s a straight line of exploiters and insiders with persecution complexes from Burke and Maistre to Barry Goldwater — but his Nation review of several recent books about conservatism is worth reading for his exposure of Jacob Heilbrunn’s quote borrowing (some might say “plagiarism”), if [...]
Amit K. Singh, the foreign-policy realist and limited-government conservative I’d been covering for TAC, lost his primary race against one-time “compassionate conservative” Mark Ellmore for the Republican congressional nomination in Virginia’s 8th district yesterday. Dave Weigel, Richard Spencer, and I attended the Singh victory party, which unfortunately wasn’t a victory — technically, anyway. Singh [...]
Good guests on the Colbert Report this week.
It’s Friday, a good day for less text, more video:
The lefty magazine continues to give the Ron Paul movement better coverage than the neocon press, which can only splutter in outrage at the thought of an antiwar, pro-market Republican. The Nation is none too good on market economics itself, and puts in a few nasty digs in its coverage of the rising class of [...]
Some libertarians (and Libertarians) have had doubts about Bob Barr’s antiwar credentials. Lately he’s been sounding the right notes — calling for a prompt withdrawal from Iraq and no U.S. bases in the country, for example — but suspicions linger in certain quarters. Since won’t be president, the question is more or less moot, but [...]
Jacob Sullum takes exception to my post the other day on Jim Webb and the drug war. “It’s sad that politicians are deemed praiseworthy simply for acknowledging the plain truth,” Sullum writes about Webb’s views on interdiction, and further notes that “Nowadays, it is not true that the government is ‘locking up people for mere [...]
I’m leaning towards voting for Barr come November. But if Obama picks Virginia Sen. Jim Webb as his running mate, I might have to vote Democratic. Browsing through Webb’s new book, A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America, I see that Webb has a reasonably sound view on the drug war. After [...]