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).

From a New York Times reporter eager to enlist him in a crusade in which he wants no part:
You live in California , where last month the State Supreme Court overturned the ban on same-sex marriage . As someone who lived with a male companion for 50-plus years, do you see this as a [...]

The New York Times warns that blogging can kill you. Tell me about it. And I’m not even very prolific.

They’ll have to go back to watching their Abu Ghraib tapes because the new season of “24″ has been postponed indefinitely — another salutary effect of the Hollywood writers’ strike.  Make it permanent, guys!

Following on my post from the other day, here is the Book TV video (real media) of a Sean Wilentz-moderated panel discussion on the first two offerings from Princeton UP’s James Madison Library series. John Patrick Diggins (author of That Reagan Book, among other things), RFK Jr., Sam Tanenhaus discuss Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative.  [...]

The blogosphere is in a lather over Ann Coulter’s use of the word “faggot” at CPAC. The American Spectator and National Review are both supporting calls to have her banned from CPAC forevermore for that affront to homosexual-Americans.
The whole episode is a good illustration of the Coulter method. She knows where the fault lines [...]

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 [...]

…of book-blogging inanity that I issued a while back. See his selections here.
In other news, I’ve added the University Bookman to the website links. Both Jesse and University Bookman editor Gerald Russello have pieces in the forthcoming issue of The American Conservative, as it happens. Gerald asks whether Russell Kirk and Robert Nisbet [...]

From Kelly Jane Torrance’s fascinating interview with Mark Helprin (be sure to read the whole thing here):
MH: …I gave a speech that lasted 45 minutes or an hour, followed by a long question period. And one of the questions was about the democracy initiative, about changing Iraq into a democracy, and I am on record [...]

After reading this New York Times story about a Lebanese family shattered by Israeli’s bombardment of civilian areas, I wondered what the militarist blogosphere might be saying about it. Do the people who affect to be so outraged by Hezbollah’s bombing of Israeli civilians get equally upset about Israel doing the same thing on a [...]