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Todd Seavey has a surprising, if not altogether implausible, idea: “If Buckley had outlived the 2008 presidential campaign, I could imagine he might even have become an ardent Ron Paul fan in time, which would have helped speed the right’s education along immensely. He was anti-Iraq War, after all.” Well, John Derbyshire in 2007 also [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Politics, Ron Paul
Last week I discussed “prodigal conservatives” — prodigal in both senses of the term — with the Daily Paul’s Kurt Wallace. Listen here.
Filed under: Conservatism, Elections, Politics, Ron Paul
The GOP might do reasonably well next week, with Republican Bob McDonnell set to coast to victory in Virginia’s gubernatorial contest, though I suspect New Jersey might again (as always) dash the party’s hopes. I suspect Democratic incumbent John Corzine will pull through in the Garden State. I have no idea what will happen in [...]
A liberal columnist for the Badger Herald at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has seen the future, and it’s Ron Paul: Over the past 40 years, the trend among young political activists has been the same: The young Left has fought the older generations of the Right (perhaps because it’s simply more fun), with no thought [...]
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 [...]
From Paul Lyons’s American Conservatism: Thinking It, Teaching It: This class began today with the assignment of the first paper — on fusionism — the handing out of an Ayn Rand selection from The Virtue of Selfishness, and a short discussion of her life and work. Then we began a lively, focused discussion carried over [...]
Filed under: Liberty, Philosophy, Ron Paul
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 [...]
The election issue of The American Conservative includes a short piece in which I argue for writing in Ron Paul and Barry Goldwater Jr. rather than voting for any of the major- or minor-party candidates for president. Today I followed through on my own advice, casting an absentee ballot in Virginia. Writing-in a vote turns [...]
Earlier this week, Ron Paul endorsed Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin for president. Great news for Baldwin, of course, and terrible news for Bob Barr. But there are several implications that might not be immediately obvious; to wit: 1.) The “paleo” coalition lives. From the late ’80s until the mid-’90s, there was a great deal [...]