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National Conservatism Has a Bigotry Problem, Whether Yoram Hazony Wants To Admit It or Not

"Nobody ever said that to be a good natcon you have to love Jews," Hazony declared at last week's National Conservatism Conference.

Reason

'The Tension Between Tradition and Individualism'

Conservative founding father Frank Meyer and libertarian founding mother Rose Wilder Lane had rich, friendly debates on how much American liberty relied on old European traditions.

Reason

August is here. What will you read? - Roll Call

From political science to political thrillers, here are some picks to transport you far from the Capitol — but not too far.

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Donald Trump, The Transformational President

The New York Times admits that Trump is going further than Buckley, Reagan, Goldwater, and Taft "might have imagined possible"

Reason

The genteel, silver-tongued thinker who fathered US conservatism – and paved the way for Trump

A new biography digs into the life of William F Buckley Jr. Its author thinks the rightwing intellectual has some lessons for the left

The Guardian - US

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began

The Guardian - US

Supreme Court could soon dramatically change the future of porn

Invoking older examples of accessing pornographic materials, justices grappled with the constitutionality of a law that requires adults to input their age into explicit websites

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Nixon’s official acts against his enemies list led to a bipartisan impeachment effort

The Nixon administration’s enemies list inspired bipartisan revulsion. Its purpose was, in the immortal words of President Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, to “use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies.”

The Conversation

Blaming Bill Buckley for Racism, January 6, and More

Historian David Austin Walsh tries and fails to rebut Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism thesis.

Reason

Trump-Vance: Double right-wing racism!

Old-fashioned "paleoconservative" racism and neocon-flavored pseudoscience, united at last on the 2024 GOP ticket

Salon

MAGA didn't come out of nowhere

Author David Austin Walsh says "respectable" conservatives have tolerated racists and neo-Nazis all along

Salon

"A blueprint for a Trump autocracy"

Will a second Trump term bring a Putin-like dictatorship or the more subtle example of Hungary's Viktor Orbán?

Salon

The best theatre to stream this month: Cloud Gate, Best of Enemies and more

The Taiwanese group’s compelling dance and William F Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal’s heated debates are among November’s offerings – plus an interactive theatrical quest

The Guardian - UK

Democracy Awakening review: Heather Cox Richardson’s necessary US history

The Boston College professor offers a valuable primer on Republican extremism – but also progressive achievement

The Guardian - US

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James Buckley, Conservative senator and brother of late writer William F. Buckley, dies at 100

Former federal appeals court judge and New York Senator James Buckley has died at age 100

Salon

There are no conservative intellectuals

From Burke to Buckley to Patrick Deneen, we've seen a 200-year history of defending the indefensible

Chicago Sun-Times

Is Chris Christie aiming to stop Trump in the GOP presidential primary?

Maybe winning isn’t the point for Christie, who is the most unpopular among GOP candidates. He just might succeed at a loftier goal: stopping Donald Trump.

Salon

Thank you, white man down in Florida

"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching god"

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The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Debate, Black Superhero, Further than the Furthest Thing – review

An intimate venue brings Baldwin and Buckley’s clash back to life; Danny Lee Wynter falls foul of a caped crusader (and too much exposition); and an island is threatened by outsiders

The Guardian - UK

Baldwin v Buckley: how the ‘debate play’ made a riveting resurgence

Verbal clashes from history are being thrillingly restaged for modern audiences. Do these grand battles prove we’ve lost the art of disagreement? And could watching them anew change the politics of tomorrow?

Evening Standard

Our pick of playwright James Graham’s ten best works, as new National Theatre Gareth Southgate play announced

There are few playwrights doing it better than Graham

The Guardian - UK

Best of Enemies review – stylish staging of a landmark TV clash

The 1968 debate between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr is depicted with verve and feels uncomfortably up-to-date

Evening Standard

Best of Enemies at the Noel Coward Theatre review: James Graham’s play is as searingly insightful as ever

This look at the corruption of modern political discourse is dynamic and intoxicating

The Guardian - UK

Zachary Quinto to star in West End production of Best of Enemies

Star Trek actor will play Gore Vidal in play based on 1968 TV debates that transformed political broadcasting

Reason

A New History of the Old Right

On the American right, populism has always been lurking in the shadows.

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