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I’ve just posted this in the comments of the item below, but it’s worth repeating here:
If all a Tanenhaus wants is a Right that is a.) a little abashed about how Iraq turned out, but not really repentant, and b.) in favor of a “pro-family” welfare state, then he already has much of what he [...]
Filed under: Ideology, Politics, Uncategorized
What’s happening to Sam Tanenhaus? Whether he’s any kind of a conservative or not is moot, but he used to be an interesting thinker. In this interview with Newsweek, the Death of Conservatism author might as well be reading from a script written by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Let’s have more bipartisanship, he says, and let’s [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, Politics
I should expand upon something in my post below: the bigger problem for conservatives and libertarians in higher education today is not political bias but methodology. In economics, for example, while there are Keynesians who seek to impose their views upon everyone else, even many non-Keynesians would object to teaching Ludwig von Mises and Murray [...]
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The National Association of Scholars is investigating whether liberal professors are disproportionately assigning liberal texts in their classes. Writes Peter Wood at NRO:
We … want to be above reproach in building lists of authors and works of comparable importance in their respective traditions. The final lists may include both high-brow and mass-market authors, as long [...]
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At CPAC last February I participated in panel on the life and legacy of William F. Buckley Jr. My copanelists — James Panero of the New Criterion and Matthew Continetti of the Weekly Standard — and I had three very different takes on this founding father of Cold War conservatism. We mixed it up enjoyably, [...]
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G.K. Chesterton never did say that the problem with atheism is not that it leads men to believe in nothing but that it leads them to believe in anything. That’s just as well, because the truth in that cliche is broader than the words themselves (in any permutation) denote. A more general statement might be: [...]
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The 1,140-page 2010-2011 edition of ISI’s guide to higher education, Choosing the Right College,landed on my desk last week. A couple of American Conservative points of interest: Michael Brendan Dougherty and I have contributed to it in years past, and TAC intern Patrick Ford is a contributing editor in the latest edition. The whole package, [...]
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St. Louis blogger Thomas Knapp has two questions for the “birthers” who believe that Barack Obama is not a “natural born citizen” of the United States. His second is especially pointed: does it really make sense to be exercised about this particular clause of the Constitution if you don’t care about the constitutionally dubious character [...]
Filed under: Ideology