Category Archives: Race

The Conservative/Neo-Conservative Divide On Race

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Luke Ford

Through the 1960s, the flagship Conservative magazine National Review took racial differences for granted and fought on the side of white segregation around the world. By contrast, much of the burgeoning neoconservative movement pushed for a racially blind approach. On … Continue reading →

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James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation II

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Luke Ford

I’m reading this new book. I’m interested in how the conservative thinker James J. Kilpatrick, as much as possible, made the case for racial segregation without talking about race. Regnery published Kilpatrick’s first book, The Sovereign States in 1956. From … Continue reading →

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James Kalb: Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Luke Ford

Jim Kalb has a website at JimKalb.com. He writes regularly for Crisis magazine. His previous book came out in 2008: The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command. Here’s a transcript of parts … Continue reading →

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Who Was The Last American Politician Who Was a Public Intellectual?

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Luke Ford

I think it was the sociologist and politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who noted that Americans tend to behave more sanely the closer to Canada they live. Newt Gingrich thinks of himself as one but none of his books stand up … Continue reading →

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Baby Richard

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Luke Ford

Beginning in April 1995, Dennis Prager devoted every hour of his radio show for six weeks, much to the dismay of his bosses and many of his listeners, to the Baby Richard controversy. Why this obsession? Because the story exemplified … Continue reading →

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