Two recent pieces of mine, from Takimag and Reason, speak to the ongoing debate over the direction of conservatism. At Takimag, I find hopeful prospects for rejuvenating the Right, in the form of a new, Ron Paul-inspired youth movement. At Reason, meanwhile, I examine Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam’s plans for remaking the GOP by [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
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.
This story has come out of the blue: Bob Conley, a South Carolina Democrat who voted for Ron Paul in the state’s Republican primary — he quit the GOP over Iraq, immigration, and trade — won the Democratic Senate nomination. (Although his margin was so slim that it’s gone to a recount.) The first thing [...]