Author Archives: Daniel McCarthy

About Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy is the editor of The American Conservative. His writing has appeared in a wide variety of other publications, including The Spectator, Reason, Modern Age, and Orion. Outside of journalism, he has worked as internet communications coordinator of the Ron Paul 2008 presidential campaign and senior editor of ISI Books. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied classics. Follow him on Twitter.

RIP Charley Reese

Posted on May 23, 2013

The longtime Orlando Sentinel columnist who was one of the first conservatives …

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Trade Agreement or Anti-China Alliance?

Posted on May 22, 2013

David Pilling has it right in the Financial Times: “the unstated aim …

ACLU Sues the FBI on Antiwar.com’s Behalf

Posted on May 21, 2013

The editors of Antiwar.com have known for some time that the FBI …

Barry Goldwater vs. the Swinging ’60s: The ‘Choice’ Film

Posted on May 20, 2013

I’d heard a lot about “Choice,” the campaign film Clif White instigated …

Buchanan & Hitchens: The Team-Up You Never Expected

Posted on May 16, 2013

A classic C-SPAN clip from 1993 is doing the rounds on Facebook. …

Obama: Nixon in Reverse

Posted on May 15, 2013

The most basic criticism of Obama turns out to be the truest. …

Can There Be Capitalism Without the Bourgeois Family?

Posted on May 7, 2013

Noah Millman takes issue with some of the excerpts I’ve given from …

Keynes, Schumpeter, and the Economics of Childlessness

Posted on May 6, 2013

Perhaps for comic relief amid a news cycle otherwise full of escalation …

A Populist Right Rises in the UK

Posted on May 3, 2013

Just as Britain has a parliamentary system rather than separate executive and …

Which Lost Tribe of Politics Shall Inherit?

Posted on May 1, 2013

The old center-right moderates are gone—here’s who’s vying to replace them.

George W. Bush, Popular Again?

Posted on April 24, 2013

Not really, although a Washington Post-ABC poll finds 47 percent of those …

Rand Paul vs. Santorum: Which Do “Electability” Republicans Choose?

Posted on April 23, 2013

Former senator Rick Santorum really doesn’t like Sen. Rand Paul. In a …

No Car, No TV: The Kids Are All Russell Kirk

Posted on April 22, 2013

The author of The Conservative Mind once described the automobile as “a …

Alan Jacobs Returns

Posted on April 22, 2013

After a brief sabbatical from blogging and getting a few book projects …

RIP Howard Phillips, Constitution Party Founder

Posted on April 22, 2013

Longtime conservative activist Howard Phillips died Saturday. As Ralph Z. Hallow notes …

Politics and Property: Can We Do Without Either?

Posted on April 20, 2013

David Gordon asks an important question about my critique of property-based libertarianism: …

Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity—the Video

Posted on April 18, 2013

Here’s the press conference at which Daniel McAdams introduced Ron Paul’s new …

Race or War—Which Caused the ’60s Realignment?

Posted on April 18, 2013

Segregation wasn’t the only thing that made the South go Republican.

John McCain’s Counterprogramming

Posted on April 17, 2013

While Ron Paul was announcing the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and …

Ron Paul’s New Foreign-Policy Website: RonPaulInstitute.org

Posted on April 17, 2013

Ron Paul launched his new foreign-policy educational effort today with this website …

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