Online Exclusives: Scheuer, McCrary, Hart

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 [...]

TAC: The Ideal Father’s Day Gift

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 [...]

The Best of TAC: Places

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 [...]

El Camarada Cameron

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 [...]

Docile Oxen & Happy Peasants

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 [...]

Sizing Up Sanford / Obama’s Assault on Medical Privacy

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 [...]

Guns and Kauffman / Wilson and Holy War

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 [...]

How Radio Wrecks the Right

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!

The Trouble With David Cameron

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 [...]

Is Conservatism Dead?

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.