1. A mighty int’restin’ war o’ the words is goin’ down amidst the vast world of the non-mainstream Right, wherein Professor Deneen and the Front Porch Republicans challenge Poulos, Lawler, and their Postmodern Conservative bunch. I’ve meant, at the least, to provide up-to-date linkage, if not to comment on the debate (which I may still do). Davey, at Theopolitical, a good man heading to my alma mater for graduate studies, has a catalogue of postings here. The debate is pretty heady, quite dense at times, but well worth the mental exertion.

For the record, I prefer a glass of Bourbon (or Scotch or beer) on the front porch to Starbucks any day, but I have much respect for Mr. Poulos and Dr. Lawler, and am not at all their antipode. They’re just not as right as Deneen & co. (in my estimation).

2. More, via “John Schmuckler,” on prefabricons, from “Conor Friedersdork”:

The prefab conservative, or prefab-con, brings the same attitude to political discourse: rather than using reason and critical thinking to craft arguments that fit the real world, he trots out prefabricated memes, arguments and conclusions that are passably functional at best.

I don’t think it gets much more prefab than picking up the Obama-is-a-Marxist mantle, does it Mr. Levin? Mr. Obama is clearly a neoliberal, you schmuck.