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Last week the Huffington Post ran a typical partisan tu quoque attempting to turn the tables on Glenn Beck’s hysteria about conspiracy theorists and ACORN activists in the Obama administration. According to HuffPo’s Sam Stein, Beck himself “has hosted, and even occasionally praised, a renowned white supremacist, a devout southern secessionist, a defender of slavery, [...]
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The forthcoming issue of TAC includes my review of one of my favorite books of the past year — Peter Richardson’s A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America. Get it by subscribing to TAC here (or give a friend a gift subscription). Meanwhile, my review of Gregory [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism
It doesn’t limit the scope of state power at all; it expands it. This isn’t just because rulers can get away with a lot more so long as they keep up the myth that they aren’t really imposing anything on anyone else but are merely the conduit by which people govern themselves. It’s also because [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Philosophy
Noel O’Sullivan puts it well: In the Vindication of the English Constitution he had indeed professed allegiance to the ideal of a balanced constitution, and consequently insisted that the House of Commons alone could not be regarded as the representative of the nation; it was, on the contrary, merely the representative of one estate of [...]
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I should clarify something from the last two posts. Running candidates who are a good fit for their district does not require that Republicans ditch their social conservative base, even if Democrats have had to run antiabortion candidates in order to win in red and conservative-blue districts. The reason for this is that abortion, and [...]
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Jay Cost of RealClearPolitics thinks that the gold medal for faulty analysis this election cycle should go to pundits who say NY-23 shows the Republican Party deeply divided, since, Cost says, “the GOP’s divisions – whatever they may be – are utterly, totally dwarfed by the continuing divisions in the Democratic Party. Not only in [...]
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I’m in the camp that says Tuesday’s election results don’t tell us much about what to expect next November. A Republican revival? Conservative comeback? That’s not exactly what NY-23 suggests; there Democrat Bill Owens beat Conservative (and virtual Republican) Doug Hoffman by sticking to the common-sense, district-specific playbook that served the Democrats well in 2006 [...]
I have a review of the new book by George H. Nash, dean of conservative historians, up at History News Network here.
Filed under: Books, Conservatism