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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 [...]
Inspired by R.J. Stove’s article on Evelyn Waugh, I have been looking through Robbery Under the Law again, and have come across, in the introduction, a very comprehensive credo that defined his conservatism:
“I believe that man is by nature, an exile and will never be self-sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of [...]
Filed under: Magazines, Uncategorized, War, World
Writing in The Weekly Standard, Blake Hurst notes continuing problems with Cuban agriculture and criticizes those he sees as its American proponents:
Yet today people hold up the Cuban food system as a model for the rest of the world.
Sustainable, largely organic, community-based, and healthy food production in post-Soviet Cuba is offered by critics of “industrial [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines
Newly added to the front page: Michael Brendan Dougherty’s newsmaking profile of Mark Sanford, the tough and smart fiscally conservative governor of South Carolina, and Jim Bovard’s look at how Obama’s push to digitize medical records will undermine patient privacy. There’s much more great material in the latest TAC — subscribe today for just $1.25 [...]
Newly added on the front page: Bill Kauffman’s column on his visit to the Alexander Gun Show (”genuine democrats would come away refreshed by an encounter with working and rural citizens who are pro-Bill of Rights, anti-corporatist, and open to radical alternatives”) and Richard Gamble’s penetrating take on the religious roots and lingering legacy of [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Magazines, liberties
John Derbyshire’s cover story for the latest issue of TAC, taking aim at Limbaugh, Hannity, and rest of the right-wing squawkers, is now online. Enjoy!
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines, media
Newly up on the front page — TAC literary editor Freddy Gray takes a cold-eyed looked at Conservative Party leader David Cameron, a man touted by some on the American Right as a model for bringing conservatism back into the mainstream. Not so fast, says Freddy…
Also on-line — “Counter Intelligence,” Philip Giraldi’s essay on the [...]
At the University Bookman site, Joseph Duggan, Austin Bramwell, James Poulos, Lee Edwards, and I also respond to Tanenhaus’s New Republic essay. A number of us broadly agree with him. Take a look.
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines
The new issue of The American Conservative is now on-line in PDF form for subscribers. (And if you’re not already a subscriber, try us free for three months.) We’ve also made available to all, by way of preview, Philip Jenkins’s essay on Argentina’s experience with inflation and authoritarianism and Michael Brendan Dougherty’s report from this [...]
Filed under: Magazines
The next issue of The American Conservative goes to print on Thursday. In the meantime, however, be sure to read Jeff Huber’s article on Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — and why it’s a bad sign that he’s the one Bush cabinet member Obama has kept around. Also, don’t miss Reid Buckley appeal for a [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Foreign policy, Magazines, Politics