I’m in town for the various Ron Paul events leading up to the great Rally for the Republic on Tuesday. I’ll be blogging a bit (most @TAC) about the public events. And I have some Willmoore Kendall stuff I might post here later tonight. For now, though, just a quick, content-free post while I check [...]
Bill Kauffman describes a boorish young conservative (in his novel, Every Man a King, p. 21):
He was only twenty-four when John Huey met him, yet Bertram’s dress suggested a foppish Victorian. He was seldom without a bowler atop his head, cocked a shade to the right because, he avowed, “Albert Jay Nock wore it just [...]
My review of Reid Buckley’s history of his clan, An American Family: The Buckleys, is now on-line. I knew that William F. Buckley Sr. was very much a noninterventionist and man of the Old Right, but I didn’t know just how true that was until I read Reid’s book, which I highly recommend.
At some [...]
At Taki’s Magazine, Austin Bramwell asks some questions that the Philadelphia Society will never answer, the best one being the piece’s title, “Is the Conservative Movement Worth Conserving?” Although Austin’s own views are not hard to discern, his questions ought to be approached with an open mind. Take this one:
• The Failure of the Canon: [...]
Here’s the audio:
Hat tip to Takimag.
The ex-senator’s bit on the side has been a prominent character in novels by Jay McInerney and Brett Easton Ellis.
DSL also brings to my attention this NY Times column pointing to the parallels between Edwards and Grover Cleveland, the “Boon Companion to Buffalo Harlots,” which sounds likely a really great Garrison Keillor program. If only [...]
I haven’t read enough of the New Critics to have a well-formed opinion on them. I’m skeptical of the rote denunciation of more recent trends in literary studies in this Wall Street Journal piece, however — not because the new trends aren’t awful, but because such “conservative” moaning about liberal or radical or leftist [...]
Christopher Buckley’s 1983 Esquire essay on his ambiguous feelings about not going to Vietnam — referenced by R.J. Stove in this comment thread — is included in Buckley’s splendid collection Wry Martinis. The book also contains a follow-up, “Incoming,” written in the Washington Post and responding to the avalanche of mail Buckley received about the [...]
They’re run by an all-powerful international committee, and whatever luckless city hosts the games becomes a police state for the duration. So why exactly is anyone upset that the Olympics are coming to China?
The Onion captures the hysteria:
The Beijing Olympics: Are They A Trap?