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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
Two recent pieces of mine, from Takimag and Reason, speak to the ongoing debate over the direction of conservatism. At Takimag, I find hopeful prospects for rejuvenating the Right, in the form of a new, Ron Paul-inspired youth movement. At Reason, meanwhile, I examine Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam’s plans for remaking the GOP by [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, Websites
That’s Jerome Tuccille’s description of the followers of Ayn Rand, in this Reason TV video. He has harsh words for Murray Rothbard, too. I don’t agree with him on either score, actually, but here’s the clip:
Tuccille is getting modal in his old age, but his youthful memoir, It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand, is [...]
The English-language Moscow alternative magazine that’s as much samizdat for the West as it is for Russians is under threat from the authorities. Mark Ames, editor and co-founder (with Matt Taibbi, lately of Rolling Stone) blogs about it here. (And here.)
There’s a campaign afoot to save the eXile, as an online zine if not a [...]
Filed under: Elections, Ideology, Liberty, Websites, magazines
The lefty magazine continues to give the Ron Paul movement better coverage than the neocon press, which can only splutter in outrage at the thought of an antiwar, pro-market Republican. The Nation is none too good on market economics itself, and puts in a few nasty digs in its coverage of the rising class of [...]
Filed under: Elections, Liberty, Ron Paul, Websites, magazines
My review of Pure Goldwater, a volume of Barry Goldwater’s journals (and some other odds and ends), is now up on Reason’s website.
I’m reading Bill Buckley’s posthumous Goldwater memoir, Flying High, right now. Here’s one striking anecdote I hadn’t heard before:
… at this dinner [for the 1950s Freeman], Rand contradicted Mises on some doctrinal point, [...]
I have a review of Dan Flynn’s new book written and awaiting publication, but in the meantime, Tory Anarchist readers will certainly enjoy Bill Kauffman’s take on the book at First Principles.
And if you’re in the D.C. area, don’t forget to come to Bill Kauffman’s event at the Cato Institute tomorrow. I’ve been looking forward [...]
Light updating this week as the forthcoming issue of The American Conservative has been in the works (with articles by Peter Hitchens, Bill Kauffman, and other worthies) and I have three articles to write for various outlets over the next ten days or so. Blogging tends to get neglected in such circumstances.
While I’m at [...]