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I’d meant to post some thoughts on Frank Meyer over the weekend but got a little sidetracked. My recent American Conservative article on fusionism and “liberaltarianism” is now on-line here, however, and I’ll comment on Meyer sometime in the next several days. Even better, TAC has also put online articles by Andrew Bacevich (on the [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, magazines, religion, War
National Journal‘s Chuck Todd on the Republicans’ problems: A number of Republicans are quietly shaking their heads at the White House’s inability to make any domestic political progress on Iraq. Forget policy for a minute; the political ramifications of the president’s decision to ignore the Iraq Study Group may be viewed as the single biggest [...]
Filed under: Politics
SouthofBoston.com on the real Mitt Romney. The Boston Globe also looks at his 2nd Amendment record. Romney’s record reminds me experiments in math class when I was a kid, flipping a coin to illustrate probability. What will Mitt’s next flip bring? Hat tip to George and Kellyanne Conway’s blog on NRO, which is easily the [...]
Filed under: Politics
Here’s how National Review senior editor Frank Meyer described his “fusion” of libertarian and traditionalist concerns — though he didn’t use the words “fusion” or “fusionism,” terms that other people tended to apply to his position: Closely related to the false antithesis between reason and tradition that distorts the dialogue between the libertarian emphasis and [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty
I’ve written a bit about the Republican 2008 contenders that I wouldn’t support for a million dollars (well, ok, maybe for a million I would — if it were tax free) but now there’s the prospect that someone I do support, wholeheartedly, might make a run: Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Here’s Brian Doherty’s recent interview [...]
Like Jay-Z or Too $hort, I was in temporary semi-retirement for a while there. Well, not quite: actually I spent the Christmas and New Year seasons in Texas and have now moved to Wilmington, Delaware. While I haven’t blogged for a while, I haven’t been completely idle. My take on “liberaltarianism” is in the current [...]
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