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Entry: After Paleoconservatism (II) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/after_paleoconservatism_ii#24891 Post contents: <i>By the way, was Tate already a Catholic when he wrote those words?</i> That's an interesting debate. There are some who do not like Allen Tate who claim that he was (or at least, that he had made the decision to convert), but that he hadn't acknowledged it. (Interestingly, I don't know of anyone who likes Tate who makes that claim.) I probably should have written "an eventual Catholic convert" in my original comment, to avoid confusion. The date of Tate's conversion, however, does not affect the argument. Tate's essay is, after all, "Remarks on the Southern Religion," and it's no surprise, then, that he would make such an allusion. It is, I think, more a mark of how much farther we have fallen that the allusion is not obvious to readers today. Sent at: 2008 07 24