http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/06/28/on-conservative-blogging/ n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:15:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/06/28/on-conservative-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-11880 On public philosophy « Upturned Earth || John Schwenkler Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:33:40 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/06/28/on-conservative-blogging/#comment-11880 [...] As James and Daniel Larison before him have noted, this is in many ways another example of David Brooks’s observation that an open, meritocratic, and (time commitments aside) low-overhead medium like a blog makes it especially easy for an aspiring writer or public thinker to get his proverbial foot in that proverbial door. In my own case, there have of course been some institutional connections and old friendships that have helped things along, and in many other instances - the AmCon essay most striking among them - I have simply managed to be in the right place at the right time. So far, though, and with the necessary caveats about watching and waiting to see if my long-term career ends up in the tank, I do think that this tale should be an encouraging one. [...] [...] As James and Daniel Larison before him have noted, this is in many ways another example of David Brooks’s observation that an open, meritocratic, and (time commitments aside) low-overhead medium like a blog makes it especially easy for an aspiring writer or public thinker to get his proverbial foot in that proverbial door. In my own case, there have of course been some institutional connections and old friendships that have helped things along, and in many other instances – the AmCon essay most striking among them – I have simply managed to be in the right place at the right time. So far, though, and with the necessary caveats about watching and waiting to see if my long-term career ends up in the tank, I do think that this tale should be an encouraging one. [...]

]]> http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/06/28/on-conservative-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-11870 John Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:57:53 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/06/28/on-conservative-blogging/#comment-11870 Thank you very much for the kind words and the link, Daniel, and for your support throughout all of this. It was what you said in the comments to <a href="http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/01/18/pathetic/" rel="nofollow">this</a> post - that "speaking on the things that matter to me, however little influence it may have, has been the right thing to do and really the only thing that I could have done" - that got me to go public with things I used to think only in secret. So you, more than anyone, are due a lot of credit (or blame) here. Thank you very much for the kind words and the link, Daniel, and for your support throughout all of this. It was what you said in the comments to this post – that “speaking on the things that matter to me, however little influence it may have, has been the right thing to do and really the only thing that I could have done” – that got me to go public with things I used to think only in secret. So you, more than anyone, are due a lot of credit (or blame) here.

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