Showing posts with label Russell Kirk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russell Kirk. Show all posts
Saturday, December 25, 2021

John Tamny remains as confused as a thinker and as obtuse as a writer as he has ever been

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John Tamny has made some progress, however. He now admits that some of his views are "fringe". Which is amusing, since we've k...
Friday, May 21, 2021

Russell Kirk's "shop and till conservatives", a bunch of cheats

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"But all these are trifles, if we consider the fraud and cozenage of trading men and shopkeepers." -- Jonathan Swift
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Rush Limbaugh dead at 70, FOX obituary includes famous "preamble to the Constitution" blunder from CPAC 2009

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Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70  : "We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable ...
Friday, July 17, 2020

You'll recognize the conservatism of Russell Kirk in James M. Patterson's description of the American founding, but you'll never learn about it from dimwits like Rush Limbaugh or dilettantes like Mark Levin

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The Dogmatic Rivalry at the Heart of America : 'In the American context, “liberalism” was not the term used to define the politic...
Monday, January 13, 2020

The death yesterday of British conservative Roger Scruton reminds us why conservatism in America is such a fraught enterprise

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Scruton was what American conservative and fellow Burkean Russell Kirk might have styled a conservative of enjoyment, a person wedded to ...
Saturday, August 4, 2018

Conservatism upside-down: Russell Kirk chair in history at Hillsdale held by professed libertarian

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Bradley J. Birzer, here : "I have never considered myself a classical liberal, but I have always considered myself libertarian....
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Russell Kirk voted for the Roman Catholic in 1976

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Monday, February 1, 2016

Sam Clovis, chief policy adviser to Donald Trump, calls himself a Russell Kirk conservative

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Just now on the Laura Ingraham show. Sam Clovis said as much on Anderson Cooper on January 22nd here , defending Trump against Nationa...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Like flies on manure, the libertarians swarm to any story about Ayn Rand

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CNBC.com has a story up celebrating the 110th birthday of Ayn Rand, here  (I don't recall seeing one for Ronald Reagan this week, wh...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Michael Lind is right: American progressives should thank libertarians for hijacking American conservatism

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From a perceptive (because he agrees with me) obituary for economic conservatism in Salon, here , by ex-neocon Michael Lind: In today’...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Rush Limbaugh's comments on the pope have been nothing if not lazy, so what's new?

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Rush Limbaugh's comments on the pope have been nothing if not lazy, which most of his comments are in this late period of his career, an...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

What A Shock. Mish Voted Libertarian In Illinois.

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Mish says so, here : "I voted for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and I am proud of my vote. Can those voting for the lesser of two ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Roman Catholics Avoid Abortion Hypocrisy Of Republicans, Slam Libertarianism Instead

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Most of the commentary I'm reading from Catholic critiques of the Republicans is avoiding the manifest hypocrisy of the "life of th...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

How One Conservative Voted Against Materialism And The Imperial Presidency In 1976

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From Bill Kauffman, here : [T]he Port Huron Statement, and SDS, emphasized the core principle of decentralization, of breaking overly large ...

Mitt Romney: Today's Symbol Of The Fatal Impoverishment Of Conservatism

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"[T]he conservative movement is enfeebled, intellectually and in backing, at the very hour of its popular ascendancy. (By the way, Amer...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Barry Ritholtz Can't Take It That Fellow Liberal Bloomberg Blames Congress For '08 Meltdown

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In The Washington Post, here . In the end, I think this is because of two things. One, a bias toward liberalism, the finger prints of which ...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Conservatism Has Always Been Counter-Revolutionary

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A frequent MO of the left is to substitute its own definition of something for the real thing, and then argue against it. Otherwise called s...
Monday, January 17, 2011

NY Times Paints Loughner and Hard Money Libertarianism as Right Wing Extreme

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The leftist ridicule offensive continues, designed to preoccupy the opposition and get the right fighting amongst themselves over who belong...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Who is the revolutionary? Who has threatened the violence? You patriots, or Obama and his leftist radicals?

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Obama is the one pursuing the radical course of action, which is why he is forever talking about healthcare, trying to defend his reforms an...