Tag Archives: Conservatism

The Next Right

If you care any about the future of the Republican party and conservatism in general, you need to be reading The Next Right.

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Against Galt

Synova wrote a little post that gets halfway to where I would come down on this perennial parlor game of  the John Galt general strike. Sy recognized that to be successful, such a revolt would realistically be a miserable experience … Continue reading

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Mixed Economies: Efficacy Without Moral Narrative

(photo: Ian Murchison | website) The nationalization of Fannie & Freddie is often presented as a crisis of faith for the political right, due to its manifest incompatibility with the advertised belief in the “free market.” However, Sunder Katwala at … Continue reading

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McCain’s Secular Conservatism

photo: Chris Dunn The Moderate Voice takes a good and short look at McCain’s politics and notices a compelling absence of social conservative moral lectures, as well as a preference for stressing the characteristics of conservatism that Americans find most … Continue reading

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Sartorial Conservatism

Jim Hollrah makes the interesting argument that the repeal of coat-n-tie dress codes at American colleges was the beginning of the New Left’s ruination of the academy, and the prerequisite for the revolutionary student politics of the 1960s.

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A “Conservative” Case for Barack Obama

It seems Daniel Hannan has been getting some email of the “what the heck is wrong with you?” variety over his support for Barack Obama. Today he argues that he’s thrown his support behind the rather vague candidate because of … Continue reading

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