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Ten years ago I was a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis and had only begun to write semi-professionally. On the Tuesday of the 9/11 attacks, I had woken up early to study for a quiz that morning and saw on the Drudge Report that some nitwit had flown his light plane into [...]
My note on @TAC about Reagan’s centenary already links to my review of William F. Buckley Jr.’s The Reagan I Knew. Here I’ll also tout my review of John Patrick Diggins’s Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History, a piece that ran in Reason a few years back. Here’s a preview: There’s a [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, Politics, World
The Guardian has a very interesting piece by Francis Spufford (from his book Red Plenty) on the now-unimaginable time when the Soviet Union seemed poised to overtake the prosperity of the West. Here’s a bite: Give your imagination permission to engage with some unlikely facts: in the 1950s, the USSR was one of the growth [...]
Recent discussion of Red Toryism prompted me to buy a few books by George Grant, the Canadian philosopher with whose thought the term has long been associated. The epigraphs to the chapter on “The United States as a Technological Society” in the The George Grant Reader struck me as worth noting: As a Canadian I [...]
I’m on a Christopher Buckley binge at the moment: read Florence of Arabia earlier this week; now I’m on Little Green Men. Flo only takes an afternoon or so, and it’s excellent. Consider this passage about American opinion regarding a crisis in the Middle East: There were those who urged caution, and those who urged [...]
Some libertarians (and Libertarians) have had doubts about Bob Barr’s antiwar credentials. Lately he’s been sounding the right notes — calling for a prompt withdrawal from Iraq and no U.S. bases in the country, for example — but suspicions linger in certain quarters. Since won’t be president, the question is more or less moot, but [...]
The UK has just had two parliamentary by-elections, in Ealing Southall and Sedgefield. “David Cameron’s Conservatives,” as the Ealing ballot called them, came in third in both. Labour’s share of the vote was down in both places, though, and the Tories’ share was marginally up — by less than 1%. Cameron didn’t just have his [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Elections, World