The Tory Anarchist

I was on Tom Woods’s “Shock to the System” internet radio show a few weeks back. Here’s the audio (MP3).

My piece on Barry Goldwater and Bill Buckley, from the Fall 2008 Intercollegiate Review is now on-line at ISI’s web journal, First Principles.
For my take on the Old Right leaning of WFB Jr’s father, Will Buckley, see my review of a few months back of Reid Buckley’s An American Family. And for more on the [...]

Also newly in print, in the election special issue of Reason (otherwise known as the November 2008 issue), is my review of Grand New Party, by Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam.The boy wonders of The Atlantic make their case for “neoconservatism with a human face in action,” to which I say, “oh, hell no!”
Grand [...]

I have reviews in two journals out now: the Fall 2008 issue of The Intercollegiate Review (wherein I cover the late William F. Buckley’s Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater) and the out-now-or-soon-to-be issue of the University Bookman, guest edited by Bill Kauffman. My article in the latter is a review of Jim Reed, Senatorial Immortal, [...]

Over at Culture11, Patrick Deneen, Jamie Kirchick, and I discuss what the candidates ought to say if tonight’s debate goes ahead.
I’ll be watching Bob Barr react in real time to the candidates’ clash (again, assuming it happens) at Reason’s debate-watch party.

Jack Hunter, the Southern Avenger, was going to post this response to my blog item below on Facebook. But Facebook decided this was too long as a comment, so I’m posting it here in full:

I’ve been thinking a lot about this myself, Dan, since Paul’s endorsement of Baldwin.
Your statement here: “The rightist elements of the [...]

Earlier this week, Ron Paul endorsed Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin for president. Great news for Baldwin, of course, and terrible news for Bob Barr. But there are several implications that might not be immediately obvious; to wit:
1.) The “paleo” coalition lives. From the late ’80s until the mid-’90s, there was a great deal [...]

No, that’s not a new dating site for seniors. It’s just my way of calling attention to the addition of some of my older article (circa 2007) to The American Conservative’s public archives. I’m not sure exactly which pieces hadn’t been up before, but I’m pretty sure these have just been added:
“Ambivalent Prophet of Capitalism” [...]

Up now at TAC, my article on Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic — and what the Revolution might look forward to in 2012.

I met Johnson briefly while in Minneapolis for the Rally for the Republic and was impressed by what an unassuming pol he is. I occasionally criticized him back when he was governor of New Mexico, figuring he couldn’t be as libertarian as he seemed. And indeed, he’s not perfect (who is?), but he’s pretty darn [...]