In a recent blog Helen Rittelmeyer cites a new publishing celebrity for the New York Post and a Doubleday expert on the American Right, Ross Douthat, whose gripe is that American conservatives had actively supported segregation. Douthat is certainly not the only authorized intellectual who has been ...
After just having read a George Will column suggesting the likelihood of an Obama presidency lasting until 2016, it dawned on me that most observers have not really reflected upon this perilous leap that we as consumers and global democrats (but not as real citizens of a functioning constitutional ...
Daniel J. Flynn has written a book for Crown Press, A Conservative History of the American Left, which is intended to be a "conservative" interpretation of the Left in our country. Although Dan could have presented his study of the American Left and its nineteenth-century models without ...
It is not surprising that Pat Buchanan's new book, exploring the collapse of the British Empire and the connection of that disaster to England's involvement in two World Wars, should have received a strong endorsement from George F. Kennan, written (it might be surmised) shortly before this ...
Having looked at the review of Pat's latest book by John Lukacs and the critical remarks offered by Takimag-contributors and having seen the defense of the American Conservative's commissioning of John's review posted by Daniel Larison on Eunomia (May 24), I feel impelled to add my two cents. Let ...
Since Justin showed me the courtesy of responding to my objections to his statements about Hillary-voters in West Virginia, I am herewith returning the favor. Because of the brevity of my blog retort to his commentary, it seemed necessary to add these words in order to make my views explicit. Like ...
A longer version of this article went into the Lancaster Newspapers, for which I"m a regular columnist and through which I"m now reaching about half a million readers. Despite the local popularity of my columns, I"ve not been syndicated; nor have I been invited on to Republican talk ...
Although I am second to none in my respect for Dan Larison as a political commentator, his remarks about nationalism and nation states are for the most part historically inaccurate. The Serb blogger who noted that a Serb national consciousness had existed for centuries before a Serb nation state ...
Having just fished in troubled waters, by jumping into Marcus Epstein's debate with his critics over Planned Parenthood and its agendas, I feel obliged to state my views in a more nuanced way than I did yesterday as an addendum to Marcus's commentary. First of all, I should make clear that I"m ...
When the story broke a few weeks ago about the polygamous Fundamentalist Mormon "compound" in Eldorado, Texas, from whence 416 children had been taken, I observed to my wife that a neocon pronouncement would soon follow, explaining why the forced separation of the children from their ...
