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The American Cathoolic Bishops are at it again, urging an amnesty for illegal immigrants. In the words of the Catechism, “Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens” (paragraph 2241). You can’t do that [...]
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Neoliberalism has reduced Hungarians to penury, while the neo-Nazis are on the rise in Austria. The old East European Stalinist nomenklatura runs Austria as well as Hungary through the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of Ministers. An utterly unrepentant old Portuguese Maoist is President of that Commission. And one of his recent [...]
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In a way, it is quite admirable that America has, by and large, resisted soccer. Americans shouldn’t be expected to appreciate “the beautiful game” — they have their own sports. There is something impressive, moreover, about the proud unwillingness to succumb to the never-ending attempts to impose this foreign, transnational sport on American culture. Take [...]
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Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative. Hard as it is to not join in the dumping on Carson Sand, having not ever read Frank Meyer George’s comment on his bad writing rings very true. And I just figured out how I could say so, which is the echo of Meyer in Conscience. In short, however [...]
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To answer George’s question, the worst conservative ‘classic’ is either Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead. Each fails on both aesthetic and philosophical grounds. Ayn Rand was an unusually shallow thinker and a terrible fictionist. Her eternal popularity is a testament to the poor tastes of libertarians everywhere. As Francis Fukuyama once put it, “Ayn Rand’s [...]
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Chances are you’ve seen the Young Con Anthem rap that’s been making the rounds the last week or so, but if not you can find it here. (I tried embedding it, but it didn’t work. Sorry.) I think this neatly encapsulates the main incoherencies of contemporary conservatism (and, by extension, liberalism, but that’s not imporant [...]
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Back when began what I (mistakenly) believed was my life-long career as a typical Republican partisan, I made it a point to read all of those books deemed conservative “classics.” In fact, my main complaint about my fellow Beltway Republicans was their lack of interest in reading books without a radio talk-show host’s picture on [...]
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Jacob Heilbrunn has a good piece here on what the GOP needs to do to survive. His argument in short: get real — or realist — on international relations. Return to the Republicanism of prudence and vigilance and so on. All sensible and important stuff, which this magazine has been saying since its founding. Unfortunately, [...]
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Phil is reporting on the latest hysteria by Jamie Kirchick, the bright young thing who Marty Peretz found to say all the things his other young disciples had too much self respect to say. TAC readers will remember him well for his smearing of Ron Paul, and indeed the most imaginative neoconologist could not have [...]
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Like most Americans, conservatives have expressed outrage over the murder of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan (here is one example among many). But how seriously can we take this outrage when many of them have advocated policies, up to and including American invasion of Iran, that would kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of innocent [...]
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