Farewell to the Gipper

Today's Republican Party is no longer the conservative party of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. It has morphed significantly in regard to the two main questions of concern to ...

Neither a Turnoff Nor a Silver Bullett

Austin Bramwell and Gerald Russello have taken different sides on whether American conservatives need a "€œcanon of great books"€ to guide them. While Bramwell has disputed ...

Russell Kirk, the Canon, and the Conservative Movement

Recently at Takimag, there have been a number of critiques by the articulate, provocative, and acerbic Austin Bramwell. Bramwell questions the idea of the “conservative ...

The Sad Sorority of Skin

Paul Gottfried’s a lot more patient than I am, if he’s willing to spoon through thousands of pages of Marxist analyses to find the chunks of edible meat that float in ...

The Rise of the Post-paleos (a second look)

In view of the numerous responses to my announcement of the death of paleoconservatism and my discussion of the transition from a paleo to a pospaleo opposition to the ...

Down the Memory Hole

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 ...

What is Paleoconservatism?

At the end of the Cold War, conservatives found themselves in a state of disunity and intellectual ferment. The neoconservative faction demanded a continuation of the Cold War ...

An Imaginary Edmund Burke

It seems everyone wanted to be on the side of progress in the Seventies, but today everyone's a Burkean.  Gay marriage advocates, Barack Obama supporters, and defenders of ...

Which Scots conservatism: unionist or nationalist?

For those who haven’t been keeping up with Caledonian affairs, Scottish independence has been brought onto the agenda by the victory of the anti-unionist, pro-independence ...

A Thanksgiving Turkey From a Chickenhawk

Over at Townhall.com late last night, Michael Medved slipped in some Thanksgiving Eve—well, “thoughts” would be too strong a word: “The Thanksgiving ...

Hillarudy Clintiani

Bill Sammon, the author of The Evangelical President: George Bush’s Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World, cannot be labeled a critic of President ...

Why Michael Mukasey?

President Bush’s nominee to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general is making waves because of who he is (the first Orthodox Jew to be nominated for the position) as ...

Free Babar Ahmad!

Well, no, not really.  Babar Ahmad is a British Muslim who ran jihadist websites that raised money for radical Muslims fighting in Chechnya and Afghanistan.  He’s ...

Of Prophets, Priests, and Pansies, Part II

Last week, I reported that a number of newspapers had decided not to run a two-part storyline appearing in Berkeley Breathed’s comic-strip Opus (the reincarnation of his ...


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