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.
That’s Jerome Tuccille’s description of the followers of Ayn Rand, in this Reason TV video. He has harsh words for Murray Rothbard, too. I don’t agree with him on either score, actually, but here’s the clip:
Tuccille is getting modal in his old age, but his youthful memoir, It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand, is [...]
The English-language Moscow alternative magazine that’s as much samizdat for the West as it is for Russians is under threat from the authorities. Mark Ames, editor and co-founder (with Matt Taibbi, lately of Rolling Stone) blogs about it here. (And here.)
There’s a campaign afoot to save the eXile, as an online zine if not a [...]
Answering the call of a good cause, I’ll be blogging a bit for Ron Paul’s new organization, the Campaign for Liberty, on top of my @TAC stuff and ye olde Tory Anarchist.
The lefty magazine continues to give the Ron Paul movement better coverage than the neocon press, which can only splutter in outrage at the thought of an antiwar, pro-market Republican. The Nation is none too good on market economics itself, and puts in a few nasty digs in its coverage of the rising class of [...]
My review of Pure Goldwater, a volume of Barry Goldwater’s journals (and some other odds and ends), is now up on Reason’s website.
I’m reading Bill Buckley’s posthumous Goldwater memoir, Flying High, right now. Here’s one striking anecdote I hadn’t heard before:
… at this dinner [for the 1950s Freeman], Rand contradicted Mises on some doctrinal point, [...]
I have a review of Dan Flynn’s new book written and awaiting publication, but in the meantime, Tory Anarchist readers will certainly enjoy Bill Kauffman’s take on the book at First Principles.
And if you’re in the D.C. area, don’t forget to come to Bill Kauffman’s event at the Cato Institute tomorrow. I’ve been looking forward [...]
Light updating this week as the forthcoming issue of The American Conservative has been in the works (with articles by Peter Hitchens, Bill Kauffman, and other worthies) and I have three articles to write for various outlets over the next ten days or so. Blogging tends to get neglected in such circumstances.
While I’m at [...]
Daniel Larison notes that “the West” is a poor substitute for “Christendom.” In the context of post-World War II conservatism, it’s also a substitute for “America.” When the Right stopped talking about America first and started talking about defending the West — from the heathen East, of course, be it Communist or Islamic — you [...]
My article on the Ron Paul campaign and the independent organizations and efforts springing up in its wake — including Young Americans for Liberty, Jonathan Bydlak’s Discover Scholars project, and a cadre of Ron Paul Republican candidates — is now on-line here.
I’m happy to report that one development since I wrote the piece is that [...]