For several years I"ve been arguing over the same point with my son and my colleague Wes McDonald. Both think that I"m too hard on Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. They describe them as clever entertainers of the Right, whom I too would appreciate if I weren"t so damned ...
An English classicist, broadcaster, and man of letter, Sean Gabb, has just sent me a copy of a booklet he had written Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England and How To Get It Back (Hampden Press, 2007). Sean's tract has ...
About two weeks ago Justin Raimondo mentioned on a blog that Ron Paul's enemies had begun to smear him as an anti-Semite and racist. From the references I assumed that the sources of the attack were the neoconservatives, an assumption that made perfectly good sense given the diametrically opposed ...
Just as I was thinking that National Review couldn"t get any worse, I ran across new and even more tasteless verbiage on its pages. The comments by David Frum in the June 25 issue, on why it had taken him so long to change his mind about immigration, commits character assassination of a kind ...
A Fourth of July Washington Post-syndicated column by W's former speechwriter and the author of his Second Inaugural, Michael Gerson, struck so many Republican, neoconservative, and not least of all Evangelical themes that his words should be archived as illustrating self-induced illusion. The ...
To whatever extent there is an establishment conservative voice in the United States and in much of Western Europe, it sounds unmistakably neoconservative. Whether the topic is spreading "human rights," favoring a "democratic capitalist welfare state," opposing xenophobia and ...
As the former German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer, has stated multiple times, "Auschwitz is the founding myth of our German democracy." And in line with this morbid obsession, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who in the international press is deceptively characterized as a ...
It is not generally my practice to answer bloggers responding to my commentaries. I"ve also had the strong sense that some of the respondents to Paul Weyrich's attack on the Fairness Doctrine were doing so well that my own efforts might appear superfluous. But since my older son has now ...
Having read Rich Lowry's latest gripe in National Review about the application of the Fairness Doctrine and how this liberal trick would hurt "conservative" radio commentators, my immediate, sarcastic response was "this guy must be kidding." As someone on the old right, I ...
If Russell Kirk is guilty of reading too much of European conservatism into the American founding, Allan Wolfe goes even farther in the other direction, by assuming that the American Constitution from the beginning prepared the way for the kind of left-liberal regime that he fancies. But the ...
