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 [...]
One more review to plug today: my take on Daniel Flynn’s A Conservative History of the American Left, which is now up (and going on the main page tomorrow, I think) at the American Spectator’s website.
President Bush’s former chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, advises John McCain to take a few lessons from a party that has been out of power for over a decade, Britain’s Conservative Party. Ok, he admits, the Tories have lost three elections in a row, a modern record for them, and their leader, the “impossibly young” David [...]
My piece on the sordid career of David Frum — who has advanced himself at every stage by tearing down anyone to his right — is now on-line at The American Conservative. Frum has been taking shots at Ron Paul lately, so I’ve returned fire on the official Ron Paul blog, the Daily Dose.
He’s pro-second-amendment (he says), but also pro-”assault weapons”-ban. He’s also on both sides of every other issue — and this is how he positions himself in a debate! I’ll have to link to the video for this, it’s egregious.
Liveblogging isn’t cool, but what the heck…
Here’s the link to TAC’s feature on what, if anything, “left” and “right,” “conservative” and “liberal” mean today.
P.S. That link takes you to the whole symposium as one document. The main page has an index to the individual essays.
Steve Sailer quotes on his blog my favorite passage from Austin Bramwell’s recent review in TAC of John Dean’s Conservatives Without Conscience. Take a look.
The new issue prints today, with cover stories on the state of the Democratic Party by Sailer and James Pinkerton and related pieces by Bill Kauffman (reviewing Jeff Taylor’s Where Did [...]
Peter Beinart wants to resuscitate cold-war liberalism and would like to claim George Kennan as one of its paragons. Kennan was no movement conservative — and thank God — but he wasn't exactly a cold-war liberal, either. The actual paradigmatic cold-war liberals, in addition to the Americans for Democratic Action that Beinart names, [...]