If we evaluate Sunday's Ron Paul r3VOLution March according Kevin's "Rules for Radicals," then it comes out pretty well. "Rowdiness in moderation" must be some kind of conservative ideal, and the crowd didn’t disappoint, even if attendance (somewhere between 5000-10,000) ...
If most of the Beltway Right has given up on drowning government in a bathtub, few have been as bold as Douthat and Salam in arguing that the GOP should try to win elections by promising to give the masses tons and tons of federal stuff. It wouldn"t be outright socialism, of course, though a ...
One probably shouldn"t look to the New York Times for analysis of the ongoing Death of the West; however, Russell Shorto's latest article in the Magazine, "No Babies?" is worth considering, if only because it’s one of the more interesting"and interestingly ...
Promoted to the Wall Street Journal editorial board just three years ago, the young journalist Jason Riley has sought to prove his bona fides, and then some, by publishing a new book whose title reads like a parody of the standard Journal position on immigration"Let Them In: The Case for Open ...
A few days ago, I began receiving multiple Google alerts about something called "Banned in DC," an anonymous blog with a fixation on Takimag. The site was established only two week ago, apparently for the express purpose of attacking Takimag writers and talking up the Lukacs/Buchanan ...
It's not particularly surprising that in his critique of Pat Buchanan's new book and highly controversial interpretation of Churchill, John Lukacs would reduce the Second World War down to a morality play and claim that it's irreconcilable to argue that the Third Reich was evil and that it might ...
If they"re any good, superhero movies speak to something larger than just kicking, flying, punching, and rescuing: Batman strikes a nerve as the vigilante, perhaps motivated by revenge, who is attacked by the very people he protects (a kind anarcho-tyranny story, if you will). Although Marvel ...
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright was out and about this weekend and dropped a few more bombshells. It was a dream come true for the official conservative media, and they didn’t miss a chance to pile on, do a little more shilling for McCain, and express their outrage. What I found most interesting ...
According to Paul Belien, "The most successful anti-immigration parties in Europe are regionalist/secessionist parties." "They are "apolitical" because they do not particularly like politics. Their militants, members and voters do not like the state, they want to be left ...
Once upon a time, there was a really troubling place known as Iraq that was fraught with inter-ethnic violence, tensions with a an occupying power, and some really bad kids called al-Queda who tempted the good folks with wicked extremism. But luckily some "concerned local citizens" got ...
