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This summary on Salon.com has it exactly right – two pragmatic Republicans won big in Governor’s races while the candidate of “the movement”, Doug Hoffman, lost rather decisively. One can only hope that the teabaggers cause similar damage in the coming year, as they’re now threatening several Republican Senate prospects, apparently among them the odious [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Over at Nathancontrmundi, I’ve posted my first substantive bit of writing in some time, “Confessions of a Front-Porch Realist”, my reflections on the less-pleasant realities of localism in contemporary America. It is not, I hope, an accurate depiction of all of rural Middle America, but I fear that it aptly describes [...]
As someone who positively delights in the neocon hysteria over “the abandonment of democracy”, while there is certainly plenty of hypocrisy to go around in the Free Tibet crowd, I must say I find that the eagerness of conservatives like David, Justin Raimondo, and Brendan O’Neill to rail on about the horrors of Tibetan feudalism [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — I must confess something: I am a fraud. For all the paeans I offer to the idea of “community”, I have never read Nisbet’s The Quest for Community. Downright shameful, I know. (Other than a short essay or two, I’ve read nothing of Kirk other than The Conservative Mind, either; I [...]
Irving Kristol, the godfather of neoconservatism, died today. This is a poignant moment I have been anticipating for some time. Uniquely in all of history, Kristol was present for virtually the entire history of this revolutionary-totalitarian movement, easily equal to if not greater than its 20th century rivals, from its birth in the Trotskyist den [...]
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All you say may be true, Jack, but I fear that that’s part of the problem. If given a chance, Glenn Beck could well bring down the alternative right the way the Black Panthers and the Weathermen brought down the antiwar movement. Granted, he’s not violent, but he comes across as just as much of [...]
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Just saw it on the AP. When I was a lad with center-left leanings first becoming interested in politics, Novak stood out as the person to learn and appreciate honest conservatism from in the era of Crossfire, and always in refreshing contrast to his dreary hack of a fellow conservative on Capital Gang, Kate O’Beirne. [...]
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MINT-AND-CORN COUNTRY, INDIANA — Contributing to Post Right over the last two months and revealing my “misapprehensions … regarding capitalism” (disdain for, really) and my purported “misunderstandings” thereof, amongst other, more personal (but hardly more offensive) epithets, I’ve frequently been dubbed a Marxist (and been educated), generally by agitator extraordinaire William P.; most recently, had [...]
Mint-and-Corn Country, Indiana — I’m not entirely sure why, but while I was driving my grandfather to an appointment today, I started to think of an essay that I first encountered long ago, and to which I occasionally return, written by Peter Kreeft (I’m a fan of Kreeft, so I’ll forgive his being at BC [...]
(Cross-posted at The Other Right) Like Nathan, I’m also curious what the next encyclical will have to say… Undoubtedly it’ll make some demands for a return to a more moral economy, but I’ll be curious if the Church’s longstanding interest in subsidiarity and community translates into a more explicit localism or if the spatial side of [...]