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Tom Woods knows kind of reaction his new book, Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century, will elicit from the usual suspects. Rather than await the inevitable, he’s gone ahead and scheduled his own interview with an establishment zombie. (Who bears a passing resemblance to Robert P. Murphy…) See Jeff Taylor’s recent [...]
Filed under: Books
Jan Swafford has a not very credible piece at Slate titled, “Why e-books will never replace real books.” She He says this: So real books and e-books will coexist. That has happened time and again with other new technologies that were prophesied to kill off old ones. Autos didn’t wipe out horses. Movies didn’t finish [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology
David Gordon has a thought-provoking piece on Lee Edwards’s recent book about William F. Buckley Jr. I haven’t had a chance to read William F. Buckley: The Maker of a Movement myself just yet, but it’s clear from Gordon’s review and a quick browse of the book that Edwards has devoted a great deal of [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, Politics
More video, different haircut — this is my talk from Campaign for Liberty’s Forum on the Future of Conservatism in America, a capsule history of conservatism true and false: Part 2. Part 3.
Filed under: Conservatism, events
I have a short essay in the June issue of Shalom, the newsletter of the Jewish Peace Fellowship, on “epistemic closure” and the apparent death of thoughtful conservatism. I argue that the Right has long drawn intellectual energy from the Left — both in the sense that adversity sharpened the conservative mind and in that [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, magazines, War