http://toryanarchist.com www.ToryAnarchist.com Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:32:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I predict the Republicans will lose an additional Senate seat for every 500 points the Dow loses below 9500. How long before Mitch McConnell is toast? http://toryanarchist.com/2008/10/09/goodbye-gop/ My verizon contract finally expired today, opening the way for me to buy an iPhone at long last. Naturally one of the first things I downloaded was Wordpress for iphone, of which this post is a test. http://toryanarchist.com/2008/10/05/blogging-from-an-iphone/ I was on Tom Woods's "Shock to the System" internet radio show a few weeks back. Here's the audio (MP3). http://toryanarchist.com/2008/09/30/a-talk-with-tom-woods/ 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. ... http://toryanarchist.com/2008/09/28/from-old-right-to-cold-war-right/ 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 ... http://toryanarchist.com/2008/09/27/dm-vs-douthatsalam/ 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 ... http://toryanarchist.com/2008/09/26/pieces-in-print/ 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. http://toryanarchist.com/2008/09/26/scripting-mccain-vs-obama/ 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: ... http://toryanarchist.com/2008/09/25/thoughts-from-the-southern-avenger/ 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, ... http://toryanarchist.com/2008/09/23/quick-thoughts-on-pauls-endorsement/ 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 ... http://toryanarchist.com/2008/09/18/oldies-online/