The American Conservative at CPAC

Readers of The American Conservative might be interested to hear that we will be at this year’s CPAC. Some of our staff will be at booth 1915 with subscription information and copies of this month’s magazine, as well as some past issues — plus exclusive TAC pens and notepads. Some events of note sponsored by [...]

Right and Left Share the Peace Pipe

TAC Editor-in-Chief Dan McCarthy and I sat down to talk about the perils of empire with Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese on Sunday night at Busboys and Poets, located in possibly the most liberal end of DC outside of Dupont Circle and Takoma Park. We not only survived, but I think we had a good [...]

The American Conservative at CPAC

CPAC 2011 begins this Thursday, and The American Conservative will be playing several roles. Our “On War” columnist and director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation, William S. Lind, will be making the case for slashing the defense budget on a panel at 11 am Friday morning in the Harding room of D.C.’s [...]

Judge Napolitano Comes to Virginia

He’ll be in historic Richmond on Saturday, Sept. 18 for Virginia Liberty Fest, which also features Jacob Hornberger, yours truly, and many other fine speakers. If you’re in the Old Dominion (or nearby), plan to attend.

Mr. Cicero goes to APSA

Peter Haworth, friend of TAC and a contributor to Front Porch Republic, is starting a group to promote a missing perspective at the American Political Science Association’s annual meeting.  Please consider supporting Peter’s efforts by joining APSA and signing his petition.  In Peter’s own words, the forum will be called The Ciceronian Society, for Cicero [...]

A Real Foreign Policy Debate

This Wednesday yours truly will be moderating a debate between Bruce Fein (former associate deputy attorney general in the Regan administration and author of American Empire: Before the Fall) and radio host/Washington Times columnist Jeffrey Kuhner. The smackdown begins at 12:30 pm on the 6th floor of the Americans for Tax Reform offices — 722 [...]

Moral Markets and the Associative State

“Red Tory” Philip Blond is giving a talk this evening at Georgetown University, hosted by the invaluable Tocqueville Forum. Well worth attending if you’re in the D.C. area. And tomorrow Tocqueville is hosting two panel discussions on Blond’s ideas, the first featuring Rod Dreher, Ross Douthat, and yours truly, the second with John Millbank, Andrew [...]

Old Right at CPAC

There are a few noteworthy old-right events at this year’s CPAC gathering, which begins tomorrow and runs through Saturday. Our friends at the Campaign for Liberty are hosting three functions in particular which TAC readers will enjoy, starting with a talk at 1 pm tomorrow by Thomas DiLorenzo on the topic “Friend or Foe? Abraham [...]

A Note of Thanks

A few weeks back I asked readers to donate to help us distribute copies of TAC at the Campaign for Liberty regional conference that took place this past weekend at Valley Forge. C4L had a larger-than-expected turnout, but thanks to you, we had magazines for the welcome packets of all 650 registered attendees. C4L’s conference [...]

Help TAC Grow

The American Conservative needs your help. In September, we’d like to distribute the magazine to attendees at the Campaign for Liberty’s Valley Forge conference. This will get the magazine into the hands of several hundred people highly sympathetic to the magazine’s positions on peace, sound money, civil liberties, and constitutional conservatism. It’ll cost us $200 [...]