Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
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
Posted on September 17th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
There’s a new issue of The American Conservative going to press today, and it includes a story that will make more than a few congressmen and foreign lobbyists intensely uncomfortable: an in-depth interview between Phil Giraldi and FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. She tells us exactly how Turkish intelligence have penetrated national secrets, suborned government officials, [...]
Filed under: Magazines, Politics
Posted on August 24th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
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 [...]
Filed under: Books, Magazines
Posted on August 2nd, 2009 by Clark Stooksbury
I finally found a subject on which I can agree with Robert Stacy McCain. We both disdain National Review. But the similarity ends immediately. McCain doesn’t hate NR because it’s the home of dishwater-dull rightwing apparatchiks like Kathryn Jean Lopez and Jay Nordlinger. Instead he thinks that it’s a hotbed of intellectual snobbery.
Oh, the stories [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines
Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Austin Bramwell
What do you know: Commentary summer intern, Adam Hirst, opens his Yale course catalogue, finds Mearsheimer & Walt’s “The Israel Lobby” (London Review of Books version) in a course syllabus and decides to blog about it – unfavorably, of course. The Israel Lobby does not belong in PoliSci 169, “Classics of International Relations,” Hirst contends, [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Magazines
Posted on July 16th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
A new issue of The American Conservative goes to press today. Don’t miss it — the September-dated issue includes a skeptical look (two pieces by Ted Galen Carpenter and John Laughland) at Americans’ love for global revolutions and protests; Michael P. Farris on what the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child means for [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Magazines
Posted on June 29th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
Dr. Rand Paul, that is. Pick up the August issue to read his essay on the army of lobbyists working to rip you off — and what can be done about them.
Of course, the best way to make sure you get this and everything else in TAC is to subscribe. Not only do you ge [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Magazines
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Sheldon Richman
Readers of this blog may enjoy Joseph Stromberg’s latest Freeman article on the land question.
Filed under: Magazines
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
The American Conservative returns to print this Thursday with the publication of our August issue — 52 pages of Pat Buchanan, Alexander Waugh, Peter Hitchens, Justin Raimondo, R.J. Stove, Kelley Vlahos, and many more, plus a Phil Giraldi intelligence scoop that you won’t want to miss. Subscribers can read the issue beginning on Monday, when [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2009 by Daniel McCarthy
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 [...]
Filed under: Books, Magazines