Paul's announcement of the death of the paleoconservatism"an article which we discussed at length and which I very much wanted him to write"has prompted me to reconsider something that Paul left out of his discussion, the Right's trajectory throughout the 1990s. This period of time is also ...
On any website or blog, those who leave comments make up a minute fraction of the readership. Those who spend hours a day composing sundry and bizarre screeds are even more rare, though their presence is more pronounced. One should never presume that one could gage anything about a website's ...
I"ve looked on with curiosity at the so-called "Gravelanche," the reaction among libertarians to Mike Gravel's quest for the Libertarian Party's nomination. That old Mike would attempt such a thing is not particularly surprising"the man who depicted his delinquent credit-card bills ...
I, too, am "glad" that we defeated the Third Reich, and there's much to admire about John's defense of American "interventionism" in WWII. (Although it should be remembered that even if FDR did a lot of scheming and lend-leasing before Dec. 11, 1941, Germany did declare war on us, ...
Nestled in the second-to-last paragraph of Bill Kristol's morning op-ed in the Times is a rather fascinating series of suggestions: "Perhaps the most obvious way McCain could upend the normal dynamics of this year's election would be a bold vice presidential choice. He could pick a hawkish ...
Justin's defense of Samantha Power demands a reply, and I"d like to demur from lamenting the departure of the Harvard prof and anti-genocide crusader fom the political scene. Yes, she was a critic of Israel, but then professors who wail on and on about human rights abuses in the occupied ...
Much like the dreaded North American Union, "Eurabia" was one of those things the respectable media insisted again and again was but the figment of the racist, xenophobic imagination. As it turns out, Lou Dobbs is basically right about NAU, and the European patriots who"ve resisted the ...
Some other publications have characterized their founding as a "standing athwart history yelling stop" or a taking part in the "severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress." Taki Theodoracopulos, our beloved ...
William F. Buckley Jr. might have allowed the neoconservative tendency in through the gates at NR, but he never quite surrendered to its charms"opposing, eventually, the war in Iraq and never evincing any kind of "democratist" sentiments. This is worth remembering while reading the ...
The Associated Press is reporting that William F. Buckley has passed away in his home. He had been suffering with emphysema for years. Taki's Magazine has had its disagreements with the current National Review to be sure. But at this moment, we"d be remiss not to think of Buckley's tremendous ...
