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As the cover image of our September issue suggests, The American Conservative does indeed have a new design. The changes don’t end with the cover: inside we have more interior art, an expanded “Front Lines” department, and a two-column layout for major articles that makes them all the more readable. The latter two changes help [...]
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As readers may know, American Conservative columnist extraordinaire Jack Hunter has signed on to be the official blogger of the Ron Paul 2012 campaign. Jack will be on hiatus from TAC while the campaign in under way: mixing campaigns and nonprofits like TAC is something tax laws and campaign-finance regulations frown upon. As soon as [...]
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We are now accepting applications for a fall (September to December) internship at The American Conservative. Interns acquire significant experience in all aspects of producing a magazine and website: researching and writing blog posts, contributing headline and story ideas, and producing at least one print article by the end of the internship. TAC is a small shop, with [...]
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Check out this Bloggingheads.tv debate, featuring TAC contributing editor Michael Brendan Dougherty. Michael discusses Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik’s manifesto with the Daily Beast‘s Michelle Goldberg.
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If you’re in or near Las Vegas for this weekend, join TAC editor Daniel McCarthy, columnist Jack Hunter, and associate publisher Jon Utley for a panel discussion on ”Liberty or Empire: America, Israel, and the Tea Parties.” Part of FreedomFest at Ballys Las Vegas, the panel will take place Saturday at 4pm in Palace 1/2.
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Wednesday’s Mike Church Show, broadcast on Sirius XM radio, will feature a segment with Stephen Tippins, the author of TAC‘s new cover story, “Anti-Social Network.” Tippins’s story, which appears in the August issue, takes the reader on a journey through the brave new world of social networking. One night at a bar with friends, he suddenly sees [...]
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TAC contributor Eamonn Fingleton has long questioned the idea that the 1990s were a “lost decade” for the Japanese economy. Now he’s challenging two popular proponents of that thesis to a public debate in Washington, D.C.—and he’s willing to donate $10,000 to charity if they accept the challenge. The offer has gone out to economists [...]
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Dr. Peter Haworth, friend of TAC and Front Porch Republic, has called scholars interested in tradition, place, and ‘things divine’ to form a new Ciceronian Society in pursuit of these areas of study. The society’s inaugural conference will take place next weekend in Jefferson’s ancestral home of Charlottesville, Virginia. In Peter’s words, The Ciceronian Society [...]
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The cover story of the March issue of The American Conservative is now available online. Brian Kaller, an American expat in Ireland, finds parallels between Ireland’ s economic crisis and America’s precarious fiscal position. According to Kaller, the Irish “have seen many crises in their lives—devaluations, coups, civil wars, fuel shortages, and famines—and, yes, it can happen here. [...]
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I just returned from an eleven day trip to Israel, Palestine and Egypt. I hope to write about it at greater length: the situation is tremendously depressing, as Israel is carrying on a kind of slow motion ethnic cleansing, severing the Palestinians from Jerusalem but various bureaucratic measures and home demolitions. It is sad both [...]
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