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In keeping with the theme of the current issue of The American Conservative, we’ve newly made available some select reviews from years past. Be sure to check out a.) George Carey’s review of Bertrand De Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity, b.) John Lukacs’s review of Equality, Decadence, and Modernity: The Collected Essays [...]
Filed under: Books
A new issue The American Conservative went to press today — our Fall books issue. Highlights include:
– A symposium on the best books you probably haven’t read, featuring contributions from Alexander Waugh, Florence King, Sam Tanenhaus, Peregrine Worsthorne, David Bromwich, Justin Raimondo,
Alfred Regnery, George Scialabba, Michael Lind, and many more
– Daniel Hannan, British Conservative Party [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, Magazines
A nugget from White House speechwriter Matt Latimer’s forthcoming book Speech-Less, as reported by Byron York:
Bush was preparing to give a speech to the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. The conference is the event of the year for conservative activists; Republican politicians are required to appear and offer their praise [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism
I’ve written on Sam Tanenhaus’s conservatism-is-dead writings twice before, but there is still more to say. His errors should not go unnoticed.
First, a minor but important point for understanding the history of conservatism. Tanenhaus states that Edmund Burke, “the great originator of modern conservatism,” did not “propose a counter-ideology.” That is false. Tanenhaus admires the Burke [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, Uncategorized
The new issue of The American Conservative features an exclusive excerpt from Ron Paul’s forthcoming book End the Fed. You can read it on-line right now in PDF form by subscribing to TAC.
Also in the new issue: Michael Brendan Dougherty profiles Peter Schiff, the economic mastermind who predicted the crash and is now contemplating a [...]
MoJo makes a list. I like Vince Vaughn’s quote, “The last book I read was the book I’ve been rereading most of my life—The Fountainhead.”
That has to explain something, but I’m not sure what.
Filed under: Books
Score one for Gutenberg. The New York Times reports that Amazon.com deleted books from Kindles that weren’t supposed to be sold. I am probably the millionth person to note the irony that the books deleted in such a Big Brother fashion are George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. I checked, and I have copies of [...]
Is you dad a Republican? Get him The American Conservative and take him back to Goldwater, Robert Taft, and conservatism’s philosophical roots. Or is your dad a Democrat? Give the gift to TAC and show him that there’s a principled, not partisan voice on the Right. Or if your dad isn’t political at all, TAC [...]
