The Alternative Right website has posted an interesting symposium on the topic: Is the traditional Right anti-Jewish? Taki starts it off with a fiery rant against the vindictiveness of neoconservatives like Podhoretz and ...
Sure, we should all give "two (very qualified) cheers" for Irving Kristol (1920-2009), the tireless writer, political eminence grise, and longtime editor at Commentary, Encounter, The Public Interest, and The National ...
Given the perpetual parade of "intellectuals" who are not intelligent in our media " Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS and the "parrot press" " I don"t expect many Americans to be familiar with political ...
And the impossibility of conservatism. It's 1964. A stranger approaches and tells you two political movements will arise in the near future, the New Left and the New Right. One of these movements will dominate American ...
As Charles Stuart is reported to have said when he returned to England after decades of exile, to restore the British monarchy and reign as Charles II after the Cromwell interregnum, "Hey, y"all! It's good to be ...
Being an assortment of presidential endorsements, wild speculations, and cris de coeur by contributors to Taki's ...
Douglas A. Jeffrey and Claremont Review both deserve to be congratulated for violating the imperial ban that the neoconservative mafia has imposed on my book Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right. Unlike ...
David Sirota begins his tour of American populism by telling how he hung around with leftists, got drunk, daydreamed for a while, and then threw up. Sirota's The Uprising has ambitious aims"a no holds barred, behind the ...
Rear-view Mirror Conservatism We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. ...
Neocon. Crank. Appeaser. Such are the terms that my colleagues have lately been heaping on John Lukacs in response to his review of Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War. There is something powerful ...
Between the warring camps vying for ownership of the true "American conservatism," a remarkable consensus has emerged around the status of Abraham Lincoln and his legacy. In the conservative house divided, almost ...
A few weeks ago Jim Antle and I went a few rounds on our personal blogs over Antle’s criticisms of Sen. James Webb here at Taki’s Magazine. Antle showed that Webb is no conservative; if anything, Antle argued, Webb ...
Christians on the right are used to witnessing attacks on their faith from atheistic leftists. Ever since the highly influential "cultural Marxists" of the Frankfurt School, it has become de rigeur for the chattering ...
Paul Gottfried has written an epitaph for paleoconservatism, and it is sure to generate a fair amount of controversy among paleos and even among those who might identify more with what he calls the “post-paleo ...
