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E. Wayne Merry argues that it is, in today’s TAC spotlight article, “Paper Dragon.” The essay reminds us of just how drastically U.S. experts overestimated Soviet power, though the differences between the USSR and China are significant: For years, the USSR embodied our worst fears—though after six years of service at the Moscow Embassy, including [...]
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Today’s spotlighted TAC article is “Rand Plan,” in which W. James Antle III argues that Rand Paul — for all the criticism he’s received from antiwar conservatives and libertarians — may be the one person who can turn the tea parties antiwar, by making the argument to which the grassroots protesters are most likely to [...]
In the brand new June 2010 issue of The American Conservative: – Phillip Blond makes the case for Red Toryism. Drawing from Wilhelm Roepke, Hilaire Belloc, and the traditions of British conservatism, Blond offers an alternative to corporate capitalism and state socialism alike – A symposium on Blond’s ideas and their applicability to the U.S., [...]
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A new issue of The American Conservative went to press yesterday. Subscribers can view the issue in PDF form beginning Monday, and the issue itself will start to reach mailboxes and bookstores in about a week. Featured in our May 2010 number: Scott McConnell and Philip Weiss on a turning point in U.S.-Israel relations (and [...]
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The New York Review of Books has been publishing a series of memoirs by Tony Judt, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease in 2008. The latest issue has one called “Girls! Girls! Girls“, about his experience handling complaints and concerns about sexual harassment at NYU in the heyday of college PC. The whole thing [...]
This will be the last On War column, at least for the foreseeable future. I will (unexpectedly) retire from Free Congress Foundation, where I have worked for 22 years, at the end of this month. Once I am re-established, either with a new institution or in retirement, I intend to re-start the column. When that [...]
A new issue The American Conservative went to press today — our Fall books issue. Highlights include: – A symposium on the best books you probably haven’t read, featuring contributions from Alexander Waugh, Florence King, Sam Tanenhaus, Peregrine Worsthorne, David Bromwich, Justin Raimondo, Alfred Regnery, George Scialabba, Michael Lind, and many more – Daniel Hannan, [...]
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There’s a new issue of The American Conservative going to press today, and it includes a story that will make more than a few congressmen and foreign lobbyists intensely uncomfortable: an in-depth interview between Phil Giraldi and FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. She tells us exactly how Turkish intelligence have penetrated national secrets, suborned government officials, [...]
The new issue of The American Conservative features an exclusive excerpt from Ron Paul’s forthcoming book End the Fed. You can read it on-line right now in PDF form by subscribing to TAC. Also in the new issue: Michael Brendan Dougherty profiles Peter Schiff, the economic mastermind who predicted the crash and is now contemplating [...]
I finally found a subject on which I can agree with Robert Stacy McCain. We both disdain National Review. But the similarity ends immediately. McCain doesn’t hate NR because it’s the home of dishwater-dull rightwing apparatchiks like Kathryn Jean Lopez and Jay Nordlinger. Instead he thinks that it’s a hotbed of intellectual snobbery. Oh, the [...]
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