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When conservatives loved Francisco Franco

John Fea   |  January 25, 2022

Today it is Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. In the 1950s it was the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. Here is Joshua Tait at The Bulwark: Prominent conservatives have discovered Hungary and its “twenty-first century dictator,” Viktor Orbán. This week, Tucker Carlson will...

National Review turns on Fauci

John Fea   |  January 18, 2022

The editors of one the leading (and still reasonably sane) conservative magazines in the country is calling for Joe Biden to relieve Dr. Anthony Fauci of his “duties at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as chief medical adviser...

Victor Davis Hanson on leaving the NATIONAL REVIEW

John Fea   |  October 6, 2021

If you want to understand the divided state of American conservatism (if you can call it that) right now,, check out this taste of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Victor Davis Hanson: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I didn’t know much about Donald...

Should the first 50 pissed-off people to get to the microphone at a school-board meeting be running our schools?

John Fea   |  July 12, 2021

Rich Lowry of The National Review writes: To paraphrase Bill Buckley, it’d be better if the schools were run by the first 50 pissed-off people standing in line to get to the microphone at a contentious school-board meeting than by the...

Chait: “The next insurrection will be a Brooks Brothers riot”

John Fea   |  May 7, 2021

Over at New York Magazine, Jonathan Chait responds to this piece by Dan McLaughlin at The National Review. Chait does not see much difference between the Liz Cheney wing of the GOP and the Donald Trump wing of the GOP....

What is conservatism?

John Fea   |  April 2, 2021

As historian Joshua Tait reminds us, the meaning of the term “conservatism” has been a contested one in the United States. In his recent piece at The Bulwark he compares a circle of writers in the 1940s and early 1950s...

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