The following is excerpted from Paul Gottfried’s Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers, recently published by ISI Books.
I met Christopher Lasch for the first time at a lecture that he gave at Case…
Derbyshire in the latest TAC:
[H]ere are the Tea Partiers vowing to “take back America.” Is there any real prospect of their doing so? If the “time left for us to do so” was short in 1998, how much shorter…
by James Matthew Wilson on Mar 9, 2010
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The concluding installment of “Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic” has appeared on First Principles, a series of essays begun in hopes of analyzing and reforming American conservatism as it exists in our day.
These two intrepid fellows are out to prove that good food can be grown almost anywhere. This creative garden suggests that growing at least some food is not so much a matter of space and opportunity as it is a…
by Patrick J. Deneen on Mar 7, 2010
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Recently I was interviewed by the organizers of the website “The Conservatory.” Here is an excerpt of the interview, as well as a link to the whole discussion.
As one of literary bent and so frequently guilty of casting the charge of a Pox On Both Houses at our besotted political parties, I was impressed that at long last, at least one Republican stalwart stood tall and took a beating in the name of fiscal discipline.
Louis Auchincloss died January 26, 2010, aged 92. Most of the obits talk about his prolific writing career while working as a serious attorney until age 87. They also emphasize his concern for “eastern elites” and forgotten WASP culture. Most…