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Michael Harrington helped ignite The Great Society and all the benefits and problems that were associated with that effort, and made the elimination of poverty a staple of Democratic politics. Natually he clashed with William F. Buckley, Jr., who viewed Johnson’s war on poverty as an exercise in futility. [...]  Forty years ago, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr. gave the nation one of the most infamous moments of incivility in television history. Buckley got over it; Gore Vidal never did. [...] Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action: The Pursuit of Racial Equality in an Era of LimitsA credible argument can be made that Richard Nixon's implementation of affirmative action undermined the American tradition of liberal individualism, transformed the individual citizen into a member of a race or ethnic group, and gave birth to our modern racial identity politics. A review of Kevin Yuill's Richard Nixon and the Rise of Affirmative Action. [...] Like William F. Buckley, Jr., Dwight Macdonald attended Yale and the men shared a common concern regarding the state of popular culture and the dumbing down of American education and letters. But Macdonald considered National Review glib, non-traditional and anti-intellectual, and he clashed with Buckley over the Vietnam War and the role of civil disobedience. [...] It may be said too often of the recently deceased, but it must be said emphatically of Buckley: We will not likely see his type again. [...] Steve Moxon on sex differences, the male dominance hierarchy, feminism, the pay gap, and his new book The Woman Racket. [...] WFB's legacy was building up the intellectual side of conservatism and coalescing conservative factions, which set the groundwork for conservatives to win victory in the political election and campaign realm with the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
[...] Reflections. [...] We American conservatives are all, in a manner of speaking, recovering liberals, and we must constantly fight the temptation to relapse. [...] Searching for the great-white, anti-intellectual, bible-thumping, gun-toting, inbred, violent, genocidal, racist-male, tobacco-chewing, hate-spewing, illiterate-elitist, homophobic, absolutist, anti-progress, anti-Darwin, anti-education, woman-subjugating, narrow-minded, dangerous, ignorant, intolerant, totalitarian right-wing extremist, brain-dead, brainwashed, mind-controlling, conspiracy-masterminding, cult-joining, omniscient, hallelujah-born-again, Christian-fundamentalist. [...] We hear different arguments for foreign intervention, generally falling under the categories of nationalist and internationalist, but many of them relying on a little of both. The initial justification for the Iraq War was to protect Americans from weapons of mass destruction; after that collapsed, the war become a Wilsonian campaign to bring about freedom and [...] Ultra-violent barbarians are preying on American citizens, while George W. Bush and the open borders crowd have abandoned reality for the fantasy of the imagined similarity of all people regardless of nation, creed, race, culture, gender, class, IQ, education, values, breeding, and what have you. [...] The most popular 100 conservative political websites and blogs for 2007 are listed here. Read who made the list and who surprisingly didn't. [...] The immigration battle brought into daylight the giant axis of amnesty and national-dissolution, whose agents had previously seemed detached, even antagonistic to each other. As one blogger asked, When was the last time Congress worked so hard to pass legislation that so few supported and whose opponents hated it so badly? [...] Without the internet skills and the service of hundreds of Western writers and intellectuals, the Islamists would have much greater difficulty spreading their propaganda to gain the submission of American and European leftist audiences. How important is the Left’s servitude to radical Islam? [...] Prior to 1978 you can't even find the word 'diversity' in the vast output of recorded verbiage that the United States produces every year. The fox does not accept at face value diversity's praise from people who, whether naïve or venal, are always cross-culturally ignorant. [...] Our Platonic, naïve misperception of reality is compounded by our willful ignorance of the rest of the world: its peoples, cultures, histories, languages, black swans. [...] In Algeria the French had a manageable problem in closing a 200-mile stretch of border between the FLN and their source of insurgent re-supply in Tunisia, as compared to the US’ insurmountable problem of sealing the 2,267-mile Iraqi border to isolate the various sectarian groups of Jihadi and Baathists insurgents from their re-supply lines. A response to [...] John O’Sullivan on Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, the war in Iraq, and his latest book. [...] Paleoconservatism is informed by certain philosophical presumptions that differ markedly from the presumptions of neocons and most modern conservatives. [...] Jim Antle on internet journalism, his personal writing schedule, The American Conservative, and Hillary Clinton in 2008. [...] If you’re going to invest time and energy in a quest for Black Identity, why not define Black Identity in a positive, constructive fashion? [...] By adopting the liberal rhetoric of rights and the individual, the pro-life movement has made a pact with the Devil. [...] Bruce Bartlett on taxes, the Libertarian Party, and his disillusionment with George W. Bush. [...] Failure to permit the torture of terrorists who harbor valuable information is morally reprehensible and intolerable. [...] |
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