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Saturday in Charlottesville
• August 15, 2017
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Looking at a French nationalist website Boulevard Voltaire this morning, I notice a repetition of the conventional American media account of what occurred in Charlottesville on Saturday. The news commentary explained that a white racist had run down and killed with a vehicle a thirty-two-year-old “anti-racist” demonstrator, Heather Heyer, while injuring other anti-racists who were... Read More
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The Real Russell Kirk
• January 7, 2016
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Russell Kirk: American Conservative. By Bradley J. Birzer. University Press of Kentucky, 2015. 574 pages. When The Conservative Mind was published in 1953, its author, like Lord Byron after the appearance of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,awoke to find himself famous. Russell Kirk was a hitherto unknown American academic, but Time magazine, which “devoted its entire July... Read More
Is Medievalism the Enemy?
• November 19, 2015
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Just as I was beginning to despair that Goucher College’s most famous graduate among contemporary historians Jonah Goldberg had lost his talent for offering revelations about the past, Jonah surprised me yesterday with a learned discourse on the Middle Ages as a prolonged period of primitive barbarism. For those who may have forgotten this nugget... Read More
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Waposervativism
• September 14, 2015
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Although I can’t think of a single social issue on which the predictably soporific Washington Post-columnist Jennifer Rubin sounds different from Barack Obama, Rubin, who welcomes gay marriage as a sign of the “inexorable course of greater inclusiveness” and favors amnesty for illegals, is now a certified voice for “serious conservatives.” Indeed she writes a... Read More
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement
• December 7, 2010
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A book of mine, Leo Strauss and Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal, is about to come out with Cambridge University Press; and it has a special connection to the Mises Institute. Much of the critical thrust comes from attending conferences sponsored by the Mises Institute and from getting to know my fellow- participants... Read More
New York Mosque: Bigotry Rears Its Head
• August 19, 2010
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At a time when the US is mired in two lost wars, running a $1.4 trillion deficit, and trapped in economic stagnation, a bitter but trivial public controversy over a Muslim social center in downtown New York seems absurd. But that's what we now have, and it's an ugly harbinger of the oncoming wave of... Read More
Being Ignored Once Again
• June 27, 2009
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Having very recently published an autobiography, Encounters, featuring famous and near-famous people I have known, two lessons came out of my writing experience. First of all, most of my figures, who had once been friends and mentors, like Murray Rothbard, Robert Nisbet and Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, are no longer around and therefore hard to reproduce.... Read More
Recognizing Enemies
• November 15, 2007
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On Monday night, David Horowitz, in the process of responding to puffball questions on the Glenn Beck program, opined that "LewRockwell.com is in bed with Islamofascists." This statement seemed so remarkable that when I heard about it the next morning (no, I did not hear it directly) I sent a congratulatory note to Lew. The... Read More
From Lincoln Republican to Neocon
• September 29, 2007
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Although Bill Hawkins and I have not agreed on all political and historical questions, until this week I continued to respect him as a principled, intelligent person. Hawkins, or so it seemed to me, was a Lincoln Republican, who praised the consolidated national government achieved by the victorious Union side in the War Between the... Read More
The Neoconning of the American Right
• August 13, 2007
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Devotees of LewRockwell.com are strongly urged to purchase and read my latest book — Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right — which Palgrave-Macmillan has just brought out. Since the neocon-liberal powers that be are not likely to call attention to this work, even for the purpose of insulting me, self-praise may be... Read More
Tarnished Medals
• December 19, 2006
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Our fondest wish to the contrary notwithstanding, it seems unlikely that those whom some of us would like to see fall hard will be getting their comeuppance soon enough. Certainly this will not happen if we are to judge by W's taste for neoconservative spokesmen, some of whom are this year's recipients of the Medal... Read More
Kathy Is Correct
• December 7, 2006
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I "foam at the mouth," or so noted a very sweet and technically adept colleague of mine, Kathy Kellie, who volunteered to format my footnotes electronically, before my new book Baseless Conservatism: Making Sense of the American Right, went back to the copyeditor at Macmillan. She noted a persistent habit of mine each time that... Read More
Feeling Unnecessarily Guilty
• June 28, 2006
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Since it is highly unlikely that the New York Times will publish the letter below, which does not represent its take on the world, I have given this text to LewRockwell.com. The discussion of the conservative movement that was put on the newspaper's front page last Wednesday was certainly not intended to enlighten anyone about... Read More
They Have No Choice
• February 17, 2006
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Those who have never met a Republican candidate they couldn't support respond to my insults against the party of used-car dealers, coddling public administrators, by insisting, "We have no choice." Presumably Republicans mean it when they say they're against big government, the same way neoconservatives do when they call for a more efficient democratic welfare... Read More
Watching FOX
• November 4, 2005
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While on my computer this week, I overheard the Bill O'Reilly program and picked up big chunks of revisionist history. On Tuesday night, Bill's guest was the Hoover Institution's resident neoconservative black Shelby Steele, who revealed this information to his obviously adoring host. The suffering that white Americans had inflicted on blacks over the last... Read More
A Few Loose Ends
• November 1, 2005
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Numerous responses have come to my attention concerning my last two comments on this website, and it may be necessary for me to clarify exactly what I was trying to say. For the record, I did not mean to suggest that National Review, Weekly Standard, and the rest of the neocon press should be forced... Read More
Off the Bus
• October 29, 2005
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In a commentary this week Jonah Goldberg (whom I don't mean to pick on again for moving out of his depth) addresses the history of American conservatism in the twentieth century, by focusing on two developments, the founding of National Review in 1955 and the role of William F. Buckley, Jr., in steering that magazine... Read More
Russell Kirk's Mistake
• October 27, 2005
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The latest commentary by David Brooks in the New York Times (October 25, 2005) on how "Bush has revitalized, rescued the right" illustrates the direction in which the "conservative movement" has been traveling for decades. Brooks thanks Bush for having taken over the country when the Republican Party was "was veering toward isolationism, its immigration... Read More
Verfremdungsaffekt and Political Commentary
• September 26, 2005
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While reading recent diatribes against me, I've noticed that my detractors are experiencing what German playwright Bertolt Brecht characterized as "Verfremdungsaffekt." This is a process by which familiar objects and settings are made to appear new and strange, so that the observer finally views them in an unaccustomed light. This process may have befallen David... Read More
Chickenhawk History
• August 29, 2005
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Looking at his latest column in the New York Post (August 27, 2005) by Mr. Buckley's handpicked successor at National Review Rich Lowry, I was not at all surprised to find there a predictably muddled historical example. Two years ago Lowry likened the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians to the Spanish Civil War, and... Read More
When in Course of
• June 4, 2005
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In the May 31 issue of Human Events a special feature appeared that has already been widely and vituperatively noted, on "The Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries." As a participant in this ranking, my name is appended, along with the monikers of other judges, to a list of this supposedly... Read More
What Authority?
• February 7, 2005
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What struck me about Tom's response to Joe Lockard's attack on his scholarship was the inappropriately reasonable manner in which Tom defended himself. Lockard has not researched the historical past that he is trying to reconstruct; nor does he show any acquaintance with the relevant scholarship, unless it can be made to corroborate the managerial... Read More
Now, be a Good Little Right-Winger
• January 21, 2005
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In a critical letter that appeared in the American Conservative (January 31), a "conservative Republican" reader takes to task the editor for "repeating the same liberal propaganda that is the staple of the mainstream news media," and for imitating the New York Times in discussing the conflict in Iraq. The letter-writer is nice enough to... Read More
An Explanation
• April 26, 2004
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My recent frustrating experiences with the Chronicle of Higher Education have driven home why establishment publications do not have to allow the victim of its attacks to respond. The multicultural Left no longer has to worry about bourgeois proprieties, seeing that it is now in firm control of a media-academic empire. It does of course... Read More
Conservatism
• August 7, 2003
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Conservatism in America Since 1930, edited by Gregory L. Schneider (New York: NYU Press, 2003), 446+X pp. Gregory L. Schneider, an associate professor of history at Emporia State University, has followed up his monograph on the conservative youth organization Young Americans for Freedom with this book of readings, and useful introductions, on American conservatism. As... Read More
Fatuous and Malicious
• March 28, 2003
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Responding to David Frum (who may soon become the first non-Catholic editor-in-chief of National Review) is a bit like wading through a cesspool. His writing is wall-to-wall toxic waste, though apparently smelly enough to scare Bob Novak into denouncing the "unknown" paleos with whom he was being linked. Novak assured his readers, before Frum went... Read More
My Dogs Watch FoxNews
• March 1, 2003
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This morning, when I turned on FoxNews for our three dogs, who seem to like the staccato sounds on Rupert Murdoch Central, I caught sight of the well-publicized visage of David Frum. Apparently Frum was being asked to comment on the Christian faith of George W. Bush, a spiritual disposition that had just received high... Read More
Sorting Out the Facts
• December 23, 2002
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Having worked my way through the neocon interpretations of la grande affaire, it may be appropriate to add my two cents, particularly since Lew Rockwell has been prodding me for some time to do so. Most striking about the present name-calling, arising from neocon efforts to punish Lott for jollying up Thurmond at his centennial... Read More
Girly-Boys and Neocons
• October 22, 2002
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Marching to the music of his Midtown Manhattan dinner companions, Bill Buckley, in a recent syndicated column, called on the US government to issue an ultimatum to the Iraqi government: either deliver your terrorists or face our collective anger. Although there is no available evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11 bombings, according to... Read More
Straussians vs. Paleoconservatives
• May 17, 2002
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Having received a note from an inquiring graduate student, Mitch, who is "banging out a Master's thesis," and cannot comprehend why I have insisted that Straussians and paleos are irreconcilably divided, I wish to offer the following friendly clarification. At the very least my explanation may be help to relieve the "cognitive dissonance" that Mitch... Read More
McCarthy Was Right
• January 10, 2002
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A commentary published by Daniel McCarthy on this website (January 7) made the perceptive point that what is now officially viewed as "conservatism" bears no resemblance to the historical right in the US or anywhere else. This bogus Right is not only in no way conservative, but has little connection to the nineteenth and early... Read More
Response to My Correspondents
• January 2, 2002
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Having received cartloads of responses to "The Dilemma of the Right," it may be useful to expound further on the views therein expressed. My attempt to underscore the marginalization of the genuine Right by bringing up the now respectable conservative movement's picture of Israel was not a veiled attack on Israel's right to exist. I... Read More
A Dilemma for the Right
• December 31, 2001
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In recent weeks leftist colleagues have accused me of being a fast ally of Paul Wolfowitz, George Will, and Charles Krauthammer. I've also been told that "rightwingers like you" are trying to dump Secretary-of-State Colin Powell and to replace him with a Zionist hawk. (Someone who should know better, Robert Novak, attributed this position to... Read More
Persona Non Grata at the 'Washington Times'
• September 11, 2001
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"Be sure Norman and Midge are on your side!" was the sage advice that I received from an Israeli columnist at the Washington Times when I went to work in 1987 as senior editor at a sister publication The World and I. The friend (recently deceased) who furnished the advice was correct, as shown by... Read More
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