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This week we continue to highlight some of the best writing from the American Conservative archives, with a focus on places. On the main page, you’ll find Bill Kauffman on Vermont (a great place for a front-porch republic), Peter Hitchens the happiest place on earth, Jim Pittaway on Burma’s struggles, Roger McGrath on the Golden [...]
Following the “What would Jesus do?” adage used as snowclone by Daniel McCarthy in his recent TAC piece on Burke’s high church conservatism, today’s Wall Street Journal features Richard Brookhiser elevating William F. Buckley to the post of transcendental adviser. How would Buckley advise conservatives in an age of Obama? According to Brookhiser, [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism
Over the past week TAC highlighted “persons of interest,” some of the most thought-provoking profiles and character sketches from our archives. The articles we featured in our slideshow on the main page came from “front of the book,” articles, but I’d like to draw attention here to terrific reviews that we included elsewhere in the [...]
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Christopher Buckley’s memoir of his parents’ last days, Losing Mum and Pup, is already causing indigestion in some circles. The NY Times ran a (very good) distillation this past weekend. Or if you just want the scandalous bits, see Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post. Certain pundits, such as David Klinghoffer in a particularly nasty [...]
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Ballard, who died today age 78, was a great writer usually pigeonholed into the sic-fi genre. But as the Guardian’s obit rightly points out, his style of science fiction was less about projecting the future than understanding the present:
The young science fiction author “wasn’t interested in the far future, spaceships and all that”, he explained; [...]
Lots of people–mostly conservative, bookish types–have pointed out the major flaw with Kindles and other e-reading devices: they don’t smell right. “You can’t sniff a Kindle,” as I put it, somewhat pompously, on this blog back in May.
Now, however, there’s a solution: “Smell of Books™– a revolutionary new aerosol e-book enhancer.”
(Via the Daily [...]
Filed under: Books, Uncategorized
After a slide-show snafu yesterday, you can now see a proper presentation on our main page of the latest articles from James Bovard (on Obama’s plans for AmericaCorps and, just maybe, mandatory national service) and Oliver Marre (on libel tourism). Take note, too, of a new article that isn’t included in the slideshow: Michael Lind’s [...]
Our ex-president (or maybe his pal Andrew Roberts) is “writing” a book:
“I’m going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there’s an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened,” Bush said.
H/t The Washington Examiner.
Filed under: Books
I’ve always been interested in future studies or futurology but couldn’t figure out how to land a job in that lucrative field and become your friendly Oracle. One the studies that ignited my interest in forecasting the future was The Coming War with Japan, authored by George Friedman, and published in 1991. After a long [...]
Filed under: Books, History, Uncategorized