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TAC is hiring, and while we already have an impressive constellation of candidates, from highly skilled young graduates to several big names within the world of traditional conservatism, we’re eager to give as wide an array of contenders as possible a chance to join us. This is a pivotal time for conservatives: as the painful [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, magazines
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
At Commentary, Fred Siegel writes in praise of the anti-Mencken, Bernard DeVoto, who lambasted the writers of his era for their lack of faith in American exceptionalism. And like certain pundits today, DeVoto considered apostasy from our national religion a sign of incipient fascism: Referring to Ernest Hemingway and the poet Robinson Jeffers, DeVoto argued [...]
My article in the current Young American Revolution mag is now online here; it’s a look at Frank Chodorov, his 50-year project, and the young Right. You can get a subscription to YAR by donating $50 or more to Young Americans for Liberty — a very good cause.
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty, magazines
I’ve spent a good bit of the last two weeks on the road, or in the air, at FreedomFest in Las Vegas (libertarians, gambling, and semi-legal prostitution — what could go wrong?) and on a short trip to St. Louis. Between those excursions, it was production week for the new issue of TAC, which will [...]
In my free time, what there is of it, away from TAC I’ve been helping my friends in Young Americans for Liberty put together a new journal, the Young American Revolution, or YAR for short. The second issue is out now, with original essays by Jim Antle, David Gordon, Dylan Hales (on what the New [...]
“Our Enemy, the President” — an essay in applied political theory. The title nods at Albert Jay Nock, but much of the inspiration for the piece comes from Willmoore Kendall (and, between the lines, Bertrand de Jouvenel and George W. Carey). “Is Conservatism Dead?” — a response to Sam Tanenhaus’s “Conservatism Is Dead.” I briefly [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, magazines
The project — well, a project — that has been taking my spare time away from ye olde Tory Anarchist is the new publication of Young Americans for Liberty, the Young American Revolution, for which I’m serving as editorial director. The first issue will be out in about a week and features, among other things, [...]
Filed under: academia, Conservatism, Liberty, magazines
A few recent events: On Tuesday of last week I delivered a talk in support of resolution “America Is Not Exceptional” at the Yale Political Union. I baited the audience as best I could, eliciting many hisses (which was a delight) while still prevailing — the resolution passed 32-27. It was an honor and a [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty, magazines
Very interesting oral history of the magazine (compiled by Brian Doherty) in the Reason‘s 40th anniversary issue, out now. A couple of excerpts here show the different visions that have informed the publication at various times: Virginia Postrel on her concept: Postrel: I always saw reason and myself as engaged in a mainstream intellectual and [...]
Filed under: magazines