Are you familiar with the work of David Moore? You should be. Here is some praise: David Moore has “a fine capacity to stimulate all the glands of curiosity.” –William F. Buckley David Moore “has a unique ability to draw […]
William F. Buckley
What William F. Buckley thought about Dorothy Day’s Catholicism
Here is a taste of David Mills’s column at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: In 1960, the leader of American conservatism treated a leading radical, and as it happened fellow Catholic, like an idiot. The first, who died in 2008, is now […]
When conservatives loved Francisco Franco
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 […]
William F. Buckley: “…I, for one, would not willingly die for ‘democracy'”
Historian Joshua Tait writes, “…the democracy-denying beliefs and actions of today’s conservative Republican party–rejecting the results of the 2020 presidential election and seeking to manipulate voting laws nationwide in a cynical assault on the democratic process–have plentiful precedent in conservative […]
What is conservatism?
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 […]