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Jay Nordlinger, by far my favorite NRite, had an extended whine today over the results of the recent election. A couple of my favorite parts include: 12) I’m sorry, but the treatment of Bush — the demonization of Bush — is appalling. Absolutely appalling. And it says something rotten about our political culture. Think for [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics
As Phil Giraldi noted the other day, David Brooks has decided that the direction of conservatism is to be decided between two factions: “Reformers,” who are essentially domestic neoconservatives and their fellow travelers (David Frum, Ross Douthat), and “Traditionalists,” who are not, as you might think, followers of Russell Kirk, but in Brooks’s lexicon are [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Ross Douthat kindly critiques my essay urging a “non-movement conservatism” (if not a non-conservative conservatism). Dan McCarthy makes some of the same arguments here. A few points in response: – Ross correctly observes that all ideological movements – not just conservatism – have both theorists who generate the ideas and disciples who go out and [...]
Filed under: Conservatism
Bomb Syria first, or Iran? The Coming Foreign Policy Debate, 11:00-12:30 Moderator: Rich Lowry, National Review Panelists: Andrew McCarthy, National Review Frederick Kagan, American Enterprise Institute Looks like the establishment cons are really facing up to what went wrong in the Bush years. Glad to see they’re reaching out for new perspectives.
Filed under: War
We’ve just added a few more articles — from Jim Antle, Michael Brendan Dougherty, and Paul Gottfried — to the main page. And here, for your delectation, is a larger image of the current issue’s cover, itemizing some of our 43rd president’s signal achievements: You can read the full issue online now, and get unrestricted [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Magazines
A point worth dwelling upon in David Bromwich’s essay on Dick Cheney in the current New York Review of Books: Republicans, since 1975, have had a foreign policy establishment that stays in place even when they are out of power. (The Democrats can claim nothing of the sort.) Through the continuity of neoconservative advisers, the [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy
The December Chronicles has my review of Andrew Bacevich’s The Limits of Power. Reading and writing about Limits in the month of September, which addresses the problems that the country faces in a serious fashion, made me all the more impatient and disgusted with a political campaign which did not. If had to recommend one [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Magazines
Many on the right repeat the mantra “center-right” nation so often you would think they were parrots. It’s spin of course, designed to try and reign the expectations of an Obama presidency from the left (which shouldn’t be very high but that’s another topic) and to say basically that “conservatism-is-still-popular-we-just-had-a-lousy-GOP-candidate-and-a-lousy-economy-and the-Obama-campaign-turned-out-its-people.” Bill Kristol wrote this screed [...]
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First, President Bush says he wants to increase the Army and Marines by 92,000. John McCain promised 100,000. Then Barack Obama gets on board with his proposal to add 65,000 soldiers to the Army, and 27,000 Marines. “Bolstering these forces is about more than meeting quotas. We must recruit the very best and invest in [...]
Filed under: War
From Slate today, Though no one in the Obama camp will discuss the specifics, Democratic Web guru Joe Trippi and others believe that the White House Web site will transform into a social network—a kind of Facebook for citizens, a place where people can learn about and work toward passing the president’s agenda. Trippi argues [...]
Filed under: Politics, Uncategorized