Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Bernard Chapin

Liberating Myself: An Interview with Roger Simon

Bernard Chapin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:00:01 +0000

Roger Simon on conservatives in Hollywood, Barbra Streisand, and hanging out with a Sandinista.

Roger L. Simon is a writer and the co-founder and current CEO of PajamasMedia.com. He is the author of ten novels and his latest effort is a memoir entitled, Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror. Mr. Simon [...]

The Family Over All: An Interview with Dr. Allan Carlson

Bernard Chapin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:00:57 +0000

Allan Carlson on public schools, androgyny, individualism, and the purpose of marriage.

Dr. Allan C. Carlson is one of the leading experts on family and marriage in the United States. Currently, he is the President of the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society and a Director of the Family in America Studies Center. He is [...]

The Apex Fallacy: An Interview with Dr. Helen Smith

Bernard Chapin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:38:01 +0000

Helen Smith on sexism, misandry, and the tendency to see men only at the uppermost echelons of society.

I have conducted scores of interviews since 2003, but rarely did one alter my worldview. Yet that was precisely what occurred during my exchange with Dr. Helen Smith. Her answer to my second question led to my coming [...]

No Nation Left Behind: An Interview with Charles Murray

Bernard Chapin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:15:22 +0000

Charles Murray on college education, certification tests, the education of the gifted, and his new book, Real Eduation: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality.

My father always said that anyone who lived through John F. Kennedy’s assassination remembers what they were doing at the precise moment the President was shot. This [...]

What’s So Great About Dinesh D’Souza? An Interview

Bernard Chapin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:17:55 +0000

Dinesh D’Souza on atheism, his debate with Christopher Hitchens, and his book What’s So Great About Christianity.

Dinesh D’Souza is one of the most famous conservatives in America. He is a prolific author of works concerning politics and society. After college, he worked briefly in the public sector and was, in the late [...]

Memorable Speech: An Interview with David Yezzi

Bernard Chapin — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:36:51 +0000

David Yezzi on poetry and his latest collection, Azores.

David Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion and a well-known poet whose published collections include The Hidden Model and Sad Is Eros. His essays have appeared at Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Sun, and The [...]

White Guilt?

Bernard Chapin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:00:53 +0000

If we could only evolve to the point in which a large plurality of Caucasians ceased in depicting their peers as racists — which then wrongly convinces millions of “people of color” that their worst fears may be true — then we probably would all get along.

Nothing is more fraudulent than calls for [...]

Liberal Fascism

Bernard Chapin — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:00:50 +0000

Should fascism come it will arrive with a happy face and a smile, as our Nanny Staters will trample any person or family who gets in the way of their keeping us all safe. A review of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. [...]

Barack’s Trustafarians

Bernard Chapin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:50:59 +0000

Let’s let young Americans skip out on rocking the vote this year so they can get back to what they do best: drinking heavily, hooking up, blogging their social lives on myspace.com, and sleeping in.

"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." — The Sound [...]

The Science of Female Supremacy: An Interview with Steve Moxon

Bernard Chapin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:13:39 +0000

Steve Moxon on sex differences, the male dominance hierarchy, feminism, the pay gap, and his new book The Woman Racket.

I’ve been interviewing political authors and figures for five years. Never once have I posed more than 10 questions to a subject. In the case of Steve Moxon, who has just released The Woman [...]