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Entry: Buchanan & Lukacs--Getting Personal Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/buchanan_lukacs_getting_personal#28532 Post contents: Mr. Stove, Thank you. You have expressed my thoughts on the matter with more precision, grace, and courage than I could muster. We should not put our faith in publications. It seems inevitable that a certain level of organization succumbs to this sort of treachery or pious conformity to opinion. I was not surprised by Ronald Radosh’s review of Stanton Evans book on McCarthy in National Review and certainly not surprised by Lukacs' review in itself but its appearance in American Conservative is provocative. You are quite right about the daisy chain effect of demagoguery and criminalization of thought: If Mr. Buchanan can be likened to Mr. Irving, and thereby in practice thrown to the wolves, then which TAC contributors, past or present, cannot be thrown to the wolves? This strikes me as a valid question. And a question I'm sure that everyone on this site has asked. Mission accomplished, fear instilled. My only disagreement with what you wrote is your intolerance of blasphemy. Christianity has enjoyed a rich and invigorating tradition of blasphemy (Bahktin's Rabelais and His World). Your ban on blasphemy could, mutatis mutandis, be cited as an endorsement of Lukacs' defense of the American civic religion. Sent at: 2008 12 02