I haven’t had a chance to do more than skim this yet, but am going out of town for a couple of days and won’t have a chance to do so before I leave, so I thought I’d go ahead and post this link to the University Bookman. It contains reviews and essays dealing with the topics of sustainable and traditional living, the folly of suburbia, and the like.This was once, I think, Russell Kirk’s magazine.
–Maclin Horton
Nice of Jeremy Beer to mention C&T in his (pretty funny) review of Crunchy Cons; he called it “localist, green, orthodox Catholic” and said we were ahead of our time…
I finally made time to read that review. It’s very good.
I expect most people who read this blog regard the idea that American conservatism is frequently very un-conservative (in the non-political sense of the word) as about as obvious as the idea that water is wet, so an awful lot of this shakeup in conservatism seems unremarkable. The goings-on are particularly interesting right now, though, as the old coalition really is breaking up (intellectually and politically), and it’s not clear what will emerge. Or who will continue to call themselves “conservative.”
I would modify Beer’s next-to-last sentence: “the intellectual energy in conservatism
has beenis being transferred from its institutional spokesmen to a new generation of traditionalist writers and thinkers.”Another interesting review at the Bookman: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism, which includes a contribution by Thomas Storck.