September 11, 2007 – 02:13 pm
From the Boston Globe’s Redefining Conservatism “The problem is that conservatism as a philosophy no longer produces ready-made answers to the quandaries that face the country or the voters. Republicans do not need to debate who is conservative enough. They need to argue about what conservatism is.”
[Updated with a better excerpt] From the New Left Review’s Structure vs Conjuncture: “The Democrats’ electoral-legislative strategy and likely future trajectory make manifest the transformation of the American polity over the past half-century. From the hegemony of liberalism, in which the Democrats made the running and to which the Republicans had to adapt, this has [...]
February 13, 2007 – 10:21 am
From The Limits Of Sunniness: “In this winter of their discontents, nostalgia for Ronald Reagan has become for many conservatives a substitute for thinking. This mental paralysis — gratitude decaying into idolatry — is sterile: Neither the man nor his moment will recur. Conservatives should face the fact that Reaganism cannot define conservatism.”
November 14, 2006 – 11:56 am
In Good-bye to All That, “a former National Review trustee surveys the wreckage of contemporary conservatism.” Basically, you got a leading conservative criticizing the modern conservative movement. Interesting stuff.
Watch Jon Stewart and Bill Bennett discuss gay marriage, and see, once again, why Jon Stewart is the most impressive individual on television. Colbert is barely worth the stink in Stewart’s poo. I said it, I said it.
February 22, 2006 – 03:19 pm
Francis Fukuyama has written an intriguing article over in the NY Times magazine, entitled “After Neoconservatism.” As former neoconservative theorist, Fukuyama argues that with the Iraq conflict, the ideology that won the cold war has come to threaten peace, and asks if the movement can turn away from militarism and toward a more durable use [...]
January 18, 2006 – 06:54 pm
This was is too good to put in the Asides section. It turns out that Brokeback Mountain has changed at least one mind. Read this incredible comment left by a conservative Christian who changed his mind (originally posted on IMDB.com with reg. required to read it, but you can see it at Daily Kos). Here’s [...]
December 28, 2005 – 03:45 pm
Here, then, is an assessment of the ideas held in balance in the American Conservative Mind today.
December 21, 2005 – 02:55 pm
For the reasons that follow, we hold that the I[ntelligent] D[esign] Policy is unconstitutional pursuant to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Art. I, § 3 of the Pennsylvania Constituion.
By Kyle
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December 21, 2005 – 01:22 pm
The cool thing about being in Boston is that I can watch T.V. again. Two days ago, I sat around and watched the Senate on CSpan. One thing I got to see was a passionate speech by Senator Byrd, who is like 85 years old. He basically bitchslapped the President for the whole “spying on [...]
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