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Category Archives: Conservatives
In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
Compact magazine posts: “Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee’s In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us offers the first comprehensive account of how liberal governance failed the Covid test. Eminent academics who describe themselves as progressives, Macedo and Lee contend … Continue reading
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Status Closure and The Lost Generation
Donald Trump Batters The Credential Society On Christmas Eve—or Nittel Nacht, as we call it in the tribe—I was doing my level best to avoid studying Torah. To distract myself, I opened the Perlego app (the Netflix of textbooks!) and … Continue reading
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The Right’s Class Split
The modern right is split by class, and the divide is deeper than ideology. It’s a psychological split, a cultural split, and a status split. On one side are the upper-middle-class suburban conservatives who read National Review, watch Fox’s daytime … Continue reading
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Why The Conservative Movement Rarely Produces Stable Institutions
The conservative movement keeps failing to build stable institutions because it keeps choosing charisma over structure. Every time the right tries to professionalize, institutionalize, or plan for succession, a charismatic figure rises up, disrupts the hierarchy, and pulls the base … Continue reading
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Why The Conservative Donor Class Lost Control
The conservative donor class lost control because their power depended on institutions that stopped mattering. For decades, major donors like the Koch network, Paul Singer, Rebekah Mercer, Foster Friess, and the Bradley Foundation shaped the right through think tanks, PACs, … Continue reading
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Ben Shapiro Stands Up For His Principles In The Face Of Evil Tucker
On Monday, Ben Shapiro said: “The issue here isn’t that Tucker Carlson had Nick Fuentes on his show. He has every right to do that, of course. The issue here is that Tucker Carlson decided to normalize and fluff Nick … Continue reading
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Conservative Princeton Student: ‘I never realized how many people are this violent and hateful. I don’t know what to do with that.’
I was retweeted by Ann Coulter last week for my Sep. 12 post: From today’s 2Way show: Jacob: I’m a Princeton student, currently on a two-year break working in marketing for my professor. I’ve been a conservative my whole life. … Continue reading
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Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America
Not only was Buckley’s conservatism weak, but so was his Catholicism. Rather than standing for anything, Buckley was primarily about posing and styling. Sam Tanenhaus writes in his new Bill Buckley biography: * Even now, the only newspaper Bill read … Continue reading
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Individualism Is Not A Right-Wing Value
I came to California from Australia in 1977 and I heard for years from the biggest names in conservatism such as William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan and Dennis Prager that individualism was the right-wing value. It’s not. In the … Continue reading
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William F. Buckley Was The Kim Kardashian Of The Conservative Movement
WF Buckley wrote for Playboy. You can’t tell me he was serious about his religion when he wrote for a wank magazine. Playboy’s core use was for wanking. Everything else was commentary. Buckley was as serious about his Catholicism as … Continue reading
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