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I’ll be a guest (resident reactionary, I call it) this week at the blog of Seattle’s progressive free weekly The Stranger. I have no connection to the blog; the week was a Christmas gift, auctioned off for charity. Here’s my first post, excerpted below, which recycles my post last August on Omar Thornton as a resentment-driven lunatic [...]
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Erik Kain recently interviewed yours truly about the curious name of my blog and the political tradition (or at least tendency) behind it.
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Astute observers will see from our pop-up ad that supporters who donate $200 or more to The American Conservative this Christmas can get a signed copy of Bill Kauffman’s superb book Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism, a great gift for the season of peace and goodwill. All [...]
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Two friends of TAC have lately produced very interesting interviews: Reid Buckley, whose new book is The Idiocy of Assent, talks to the Daily Caller; while Eric Garris, webmaster and founding father of Antiwar.com, discusses war and peace with the Daily Bell. Good reads both. Yours truly was interviewed by the Daily Bell a while [...]
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All the best periodicals showcase the intelligence of their readership on their letters page–and at The American Conservative, we want to continue in this tradition. The editors look forward to publishing your replies to our authors in next month’s print edition, which is due to hit newsstands only a few weeks from now. This month’s [...]
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We are now accepting applications for a winter-spring (January to May) internship at TAC. Interns get significant experience with all aspects of producing a magazine and website: drafting short editorials, contributing headline and story ideas, and producing at least one print article by the end of the internship. TAC is a small shop, with everyone pitching in [...]
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Jon Basil Utley, Associate Publisher of The American Conservative, has a new piece at Reason.com discussing how kowtowing to environmentalists’ demands is killing American jobs. President Barack Obama seems more concerned with appeasing environmental extremists in his administration than he is with the lost jobs of poor Americans. He’s letting the environmentalists run wild with [...]
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Two articles from The American Conservative’s December 2010 issue can now be read online. Extraordinary Joe | Kevin Lynch Kevin Lynch remembers his friend and colleague Joseph Sobran. His timing was exquisite. He would, at the perfectly appropriate moment, offer the perfectly apt quote to illuminate the moral or political point under discussion. I preceded [...]
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1). Freedom’s Laureate | Kelly Jane Torrance In the December 2010 issue of The American Conservative, Kelly Torrance shows how Mario Vargas Llosa’s journey from a socialist radical to a libertarian literary hero makes him the perfect Nobel Laureate for our times. He immersed himself in Marxism as a student, belonged to a communist cell, [...]
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And not a moment too soon. With the Republicans on their way back to Congress, a thoughtful conservatism — as an antidote to the war-and-debt neoconservatism on offer elsewhere — is needed now more than ever. Over the past three months, readers have been unstintingly generous in contributing to bring the magazine back into print. [...]
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