Category: Conservatism
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The Sam Tanenhaus Biography of William F. Buckley
I came across it at the local library but the sheer weight of the thing dissuaded me from checking it out. I borrowed Jake Tapper's light-weight (in both senses) Original Sin instead. I cannot recommend it. William Voegli's review of Tanenhaus, William F. Buckley and the Conservative Future, I can recommend. It raises the question:…
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Ray Monk on Frege, Russell, Patriotism and Prejudice
Excerpt: The single thing I can imagine Russell finding most shocking would be Frege’s endorsement of patriotism as an unreasoning prejudice. The absence of political insight characteristic of his times, Frege says, is due to “a complete lack of patriotism.” He acknowledges that patriotism involves prejudice rather than impartial thought, but he thinks that is…
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Ronald Radosh on David Horowitz: A Critical Appreciation
On very rare occasions, something surfaces at The Bulwark worth reading. Radosh, who is well worth reading, gives his take on Horowitz's flipping of his ideological script, and takes him to task for his late extremism. But how is this judgment by Radosh not itself extreme: What David is being celebrated for is the opposite…
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Every Generation Faces a Barbarian Threat . . .
. . . in its own children. A Substack entry in honor of David Horowitz, recently passed, from whom we the teachable have learned so much. We salute you, sir, and we will carry on to the best of our limited abilities.
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The Left’s Verbal Theft
A Substack warning to foolish conservatives.
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Black Lives Maga!
The South Bronx comes out for the Orange Man. The video is about eight minutes long and puts me in mind of the old "Joe and Eddy" tune from the early '60s, There's a Meeting Here Tonight. Black support for Trump makes perfect sense. These black citizens understand that an endless influx of illegal aliens…
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‘Progressive’ and ‘Conservative’
In their contemporary usages these terms are mainly misnomers. If progress is change for the good, there is little progressive about contemporary 'progressives.' They are more accurately referred to as regressives. Or do you think that allowing biological males to compete in women's sporting events is a change for the good? It is obviously not,…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Lawrence Auster on Bob Dylan
I was surprised, but pleased, to find that the late Lawrence Auster, traditionalist conservative, photo above, 1973, had a deep appreciation and a wide-ranging knowledge of Dylan's art. Born in 1949, Auster is generationally situated for that appreciation, and as late as '73 was still flying the '60s colors, if we can go by the…