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No, there’s no secret connection between the conservative youth organization born at the Buckley home in Sharon, Connecticut 50 years ago this month and left-communitarian author of Rules for Radicals — no connection, that is, except that TAC is presently spotlighting lively new reviews about each of them, courtesy of Jesse Walker and David Franke. [...]
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Don’t forget to check out the two new essays @ The American Conservative: Nick Turse | Success in Afghanistan Success is the buzzword Washington ascribes to the mission in Afghanistan, but, as Nick Turse illuminates, opaquely talking about “success” does not mean the ten-year Afghanistan experiment has benefited the United States or the Afghan people. [...]
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Bill Kauffman’s latest column, covering Christopher Lasch, political memorabilia, and the most anti-imperialist diplomat in U.S. history, is online today. As is John Schwenkler’s double review of two recent books on higher education, Louis Menand’s The Marketplace of Ideas and Martha Nussbaum’s Not For Profit. Meanwhile, courtesy of our friends at TomDispatch.com comes Juan Cole’s [...]
Former New Republic editor Peter Beinart does some good work, but I remember feeling pangs of cognitive dissonance earlier this year when I started hearing about The Icarus Syndrome, his book on foreign-policy hubris. I thought I must have Beinart confused with the guy who wrote The Good Fight, a manifesto for liberal hawks, four [...]
Today’s spotlighted article at TAC is Brendan O’Neill’s review of Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. Also, author Eric Miller comments (scroll down) on David Brown’s review of Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch.
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The great, old-school conservative commentator James Jackson Kilpatrick has passed away.
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Don’t miss Paul Gottfried’s review of George H. Nash’s Reappraising the Right, newly online at TAC. Take note, too, of David Brown’s review of the new biography of Christopher Lasch (Hope in a Scattering Time), a left-wing thinker much admired by traditionalist conservatives. Also recently added is Jack Hunter’s commentary “How Partisanship Hurts Conservatism.” If [...]
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Today’s spotlighted article is Steve Sailer’s look at the politics of Hollywood — and why Tinseltown is not quite as leftist as the proclivities of its actors and directors might lead you to believe. Also newly online, in memory of Tony Judt, who died last Friday, is our review of the book widely considered Judt’s [...]
I’ve just returned from a two week adventure cruising down the Adriatic and into the Ionian Sea visiting many of the sites that together formed the Venetian thalassocracy, which they referred to as the stato da mar. Corfu was astonishing, virtually a little Venice architecturally with traces of the occupying power visible everywhere. Food was also [...]
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New site FiveBooks.com (new to me, anyway), which specializes in interviewing public figures and getting their reading recommendations, has put up an interview with Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels about five tomes he recommends. The list is as safe and dry as the man himself — The Road to Serfdom, Free to Choose, Charles Murray’s What [...]