I wish I had as clever and interesting a self-introduction as some of this blog’s other writers, but at the moment I’m busily trying to ward off what the doctors are telling me is actual swine flu. (No joke.) So I think brevity, for the time being, is forgivable.

Unlike my colleagues, I have never been a Naderite, nor a Norman Thomas socialist, nor yet a Kirkian Leftist. I am rather a plain old unsexy communitarian with a fondness of Burke and a low opinion of the current divides of our politics. If you haven’t encountered my writing before, there’s a lot of it at my home blog, The Other Right, and thanks to Daniel McCarthy’s generosity, soon a good deal more of it here. As both blogs’ titles should suggest, I also don’t think much of the standard divides between left and right. Both sides, to my mind, contain the seeds of a worldview committed to the long-term viability of our society, and the task of Post Right (or Post Left) thinking is to trace out where those seeds might lead us if we take them seriously. However, as exciting as that project sounds, I’m currently way too sick to try to articulate anything more than that, so I will retreat to my bed and leave you in the hands of more healthy writers.