I met William F. Buckley Jr. on just a couple of occasions. He gave a talk at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis back around 2000 — one of his last campus talks. He had some spare time in his schedule, including time for a chat with my conservative group at Washington University (which is [...]
This Time article from Feb. 10, 1961 shows some of the best and worst traits of the early conservative student movement.
As Editor Peter Stuart of the Michigan Daily puts it: “The signs point to a revival of interest in individualism and decentralization of power—principles espoused by John Locke and Thomas Jefferson and [...]
I was saddened to hear of the death on Monday of E. Victor Milione. He was president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute for a quarter of a century, from 1963 to 1988; indeed, it would not be wrong to say that he built the organization. He had been one of the first scholarly young men [...]
My piece on the sordid career of David Frum — who has advanced himself at every stage by tearing down anyone to his right — is now on-line at The American Conservative. Frum has been taking shots at Ron Paul lately, so I’ve returned fire on the official Ron Paul blog, the Daily Dose.
Perhaps there was more than meets the eye to the John Shadegg retirement story I linked to the other day. He, along with several others Arizona politicos, may be looking to take John McCain’s place if the senator steps down to concentrate on his presidential run. I’d rather see Jeff Flake get the seat, but [...]
John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) has announced he’s not running for re-election. He was no Ron Paul, nor even a Stephen Shadegg, but at least he thought of himself as a Goldwater Republican, and it would have been a sign of health for the party if he had beaten John Boehner in the contest to be House [...]
A classic Peter Brimelow article from Forbes on an eminently sensible idea that’s now getting more attention thanks to Ron Paul.
I bought Alan Pell Crawford’s new book, Twilight at Monticello, on Friday (along with Jacob Heilbrunn’s They Knew They Were Right). I’m looking forward both to reading it and, I hope, reviewing it somewhere. But you don’t have to wait for my review: you can get two opinions of the book from Bill Kauffman, [...]
My review of Gerald Russello’s The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk is in the current issue of Reason (March 2008). I think it’ll be put on-line eventually, but why wait? Pick up a copy at your nearest quality bookstore or newsstand.
Reviewing Jacob Heilbrunn’s They Knew They Were Right in the Washington Post, Ted Widmer refers to the neoconservatives’ “suffer[ing] a fall as unexpected as their rise.” Even some of my paleo friends, at least the ones who live within the D.C. beltway (and yes, beltway paleo is a bit of an oxymoron) believe the neocons’ [...]
