American Right

Hazony vs. Neo-Marxism

I wouldn’t be giving Hazony this much air time if I didn’t think that it was important to understand what people on the Right like him are saying. He doesn’t fit into most of the cubbies that most Americans put someone who is MAGA friendly. As I said in a previous post, his team that
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Hazony’s Conservative Paradigm

Is Hazony a Continuist or a Discontinuist? I thought before that he’s more of a Discontinuist, but maybe he needs another category, say, Re-Contintuist. There’s a part of me that thinks that Hazony would be better off if he called what’s he’s talking about something other than ‘Conservative’, perhaps a Whig. I don’t think the
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Continuists vs Discontinuists: Setting Up a Critical Look at Yoram Hazony

Let me start by saying that I don’t think that Yoram Hazony is an ideological hack, even if he's associating with hacks that I think diminish his credibility with the non-hack community. Nevertheless, I think he's writing in good faith, and his ideas have to be taken seriously if for no other reason that they
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Enlightenment v. Counter-Enlightenment: Hamann’s Particularism

I’ve started Hazony’s most recent book, Conservatism: A Rediscovery, and find it a better book than the one on nationalism. There is much in it I agree with because when push comes to shove, I am a small ‘c’ conservative. The problem for me is that in the condition of Postmodernity, there’s nothing left to
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Hazony v. Klein v. Me

I listened to Ezra Klein’s podcast interview with Yoram Hazony shortly after posting “Taking a Step Back" yesterday about the Good Society. This is a very interesting conversation, and I encourage you to listen to it. Hazony and Klein in their different ways would find my ‘Rescuing Aristotle’ argument weird, so I thought it might be
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Taking a Step Back: Here’s an Overview of My Argument

What I’m trying to do here is probably not ideal for blog or Newsletter, but should rather be in a book. I’m not particularly motivated to write a book that nobody is going to read, but it might be useful exercise for me and for the few people who are interested to try to integrate
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Epstein’s Revenge

And a project at the University of Maryland to track radicalization by QAnon found that 83 percent of the women who had committed crimes in the name of the conspiracy theory had children who had been abused by a romantic partner or family member. The QAnon movement doesn’t draw adherents online the way it once
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How Significant, Really, Was Bill Buckley?

I’ve just finished the Tanenhaus Buckley biography. It engaged me on a number of levels, not the least because his life, 1925-2008, mapped to the lives of my parents, and reading the story of his big life helps me to understand their smaller ones. Like most good biographies, the story told is not just about
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Bill Buckley: Romantic Reactionary

[I’ve been reading Sam Tanenhaus’s rich, complex, and long-time-coming biography of William Buckley entitled Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. I’ve just finished the bit about his role in grand jury tampering to get Adam Clayton Powell indicted. I hadn’t known about his role in that, and it’s instructive about Buckley in
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The Bannon-Brooks Interview

Monday was consequential for being the day the Trump Immunity ruling came down and Steve Bannon went to jail. Again. His interview with David Brooks published on Monday is pretty disturbing, but clarifying in light of the SCOTUS ruling. Bannon even references Project 2025: Project 2025 and others are working on it — to immediately
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