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A friend asked me whether I’d comment on the clash between James Poulos and his “Postmodern Conservatives” and the localists at the Front Porch Republic. I replied that Patrick Deneen had already made the point that I would have made: “PoMoCons are uneasily but pretty firmly aligned with the Republican party as it has been [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Websites
Just about everything that needs to be said about Michael Jackson (RIP) was said by Michael Kinsley 25 years ago:
What’s happened to Michael Jackson isn’t too different from what they used to do to young male singers in Europe a few centuries ago, to keep their voices sweet. In another way, it resembles the exploitation [...]
Filed under: Pop culture, the dead
As given in Rousseau and Romanticism:
I have been struck in my study of the past by the endless self-deception to which man is subject when he tries to pass too abruptly from the naturalistic to the religious level. The world, it is hard to avoid concluding, would have been a better place if more persons [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism
Michael Steele’s dream — “We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings” — comes true:
“Three things taught me conservative love / Jesus, Ronald Reagan, plus Atlas Shrugged.” Rappers “Serious C.” and “Stiltz” are students [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, non-culture
Arlington, Virginia, which is where I live:
Though in fairness, as someone comments in response to a namesake of mine on the DCist website, “It’s hard to argue against low taxes, low crime, and clean.” And convenient for getting around on foot, too. I ditched my “mechanical Jacobin” when I moved to my present apartment — [...]
Filed under: Diversions
No, that’s not like the Craigslist Killer for bluestockings. It’s the iPhone, as Ann Kirschner argues:
Kindle, shmindle. It does almost nothing that an iPhone can’t do better — and most important, the iPhone is always with me. Woody Allen had it right: Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Yes, the Kindle’s reasonable [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology
This “Daily Show” report by Jason Jones on the New York Times is so brutal I would feel sorry for the Old Gray Lady — if only any of her employees showed a hint of humor or self-awareness. Consider this exchange between Jones and Assistant Managing Editor Rick Burke:
Jones: Why is aged news better than [...]
Filed under: media
In my free time, what there is of it, away from TAC I’ve been helping my friends in Young Americans for Liberty put together a new journal, the Young American Revolution, or YAR for short. The second issue is out now, with original essays by Jim Antle, David Gordon, Dylan Hales (on what the New [...]
The Tory Anarchist got its start, in its present incarnation at least, about three years ago as an occasional outlet for my work outside of The American Conservative. That was before TAC had any blogs itself. Now that we have several, adding mine to the ensemble seems like a logical move.
What is the Tory Anarchist? [...]
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